'Thief' in the Bible

“If the thief is caught while breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no bloodguiltiness on his account.

“If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house shall appear before the judges, to determine whether he laid his hands on his neighbor’s property.

“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

“The murderer arises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy,And at night he is as a thief.

“They are driven from the community;They shout against them as against a thief,

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,And you associate with adulterers.

Men do not despise a thief if he stealsTo satisfy himself when he is hungry;

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;He hears the oath but tells nothing.

“As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,So the house of Israel is shamed;They, their kings, their princesAnd their priests and their prophets,

When I would heal Israel,The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,And the evil deeds of Samaria,For they deal falsely;The thief enters in,Bandits raid outside,

They rush on the city,They run on the wall;They climb into the houses,They enter through the windows like a thief.

I will make it go forth,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

“Sell your possessions and give to charity; make yourselves money belts which do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near nor moth destroys.

“But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came 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 as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.

For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;

Make sure that none of you suffers as a murderer, or thief, or evildoer, or a troublesome meddler;

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”)