'Thief' in the Bible

" 'If a thief is found in the act of breaking in and he is struck and he dies, there is not bloodguilt for him.

" 'If a man gives to his neighbor money or objects to watch over and it is stolen from the house of the man, if the thief is found, he will make double restitution.

If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will be brought {to the sanctuary} [to learn] whether or not he reached out his hand to his neighbor's possession.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

They were driven out from fellow people; they shout at them as [at] a thief,

When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association [is] with adulterers.

[People] do not despise a thief when he steals to fill himself when he is hungry.

Being a partner with a thief is hating one's life; a curse he will hear, but not disclose.

As [the] shame of a thief when he is caught in the act, so the house of Israel will be ashamed. They, their kings, their officials, and their priests, and their prophets.

when I would heal Israel, and the corruption of Ephraim is revealed, and the wicked deeds of Samaria; because they deal [in] falsehood, [the] thief breaks in, [and the] bandit raids the outside.

In the city they rush forth; on the walls they run. Into the houses they climb up; through the windows they enter like thief.

'I have sent it out,' {declares} Yahweh of hosts, 'and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one swearing {falsely by my name}, and it will spend the night in that house and will destroy it, with its timber and its stone.'"

But understand this: that if the master of the house had known what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

Sell your possessions and give charitable gifts. Make for yourselves money bags that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven where thief does not approach or moth destroy.

But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.

The thief {comes only} so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have [it] abundantly.

(Now he said this not because {he was concerned} about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having the money box, he used to steal what was put into [it].)

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief,

By all means do not let anyone of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed [by] being burned up, and the earth and the deeds [done] on it will be disclosed.

Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe [it], and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know [at] what hour I will come against you.

(Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed [is] the one who is on the alert and who keeps his clothing, so that he does not walk around naked and they see his shamefulness!)