Theft and Thieves
47 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Achan
- Joshua 7:11 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.
Figurative
- Obadiah 5 “If thieves came to you, if robbers by night — oh, how you will be ruined — would they not steal only what they wanted? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave some gleanings?
General Scriptures Concerning
- Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.
- Exodus 21:16 Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
- Exodus 22:1–4 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. …
- Exodus 22:10–15 If a man gives a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to be cared for by his neighbor, but it dies or is injured or stolen while no one is watching, …
- Leviticus 6:2–7 “If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor …
- Leviticus 19:11 You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Deuteronomy 5:19 You shall not steal.
- Deuteronomy 23:24–25 When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket. …
- Psalm 50:18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- Psalm 62:10 Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Psalm 119:61 Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
- Proverbs 6:30–31 Men do not despise the thief if he steals to satisfy his hunger. …
- Proverbs 21:7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
- Isaiah 61:8 For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
- Jeremiah 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
- Jeremiah 7:9–10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, …
- Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
- Hosea 4:1–2 Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no truth, no loving devotion, and no knowledge of God in the land! …
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
- Zechariah 5:3 Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.
- Matthew 6:19–20 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. …
- Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Matthew 19:18 “Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,
- Matthew 21:13 And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Matthew 27:38 Two robbers were crucified with Him, one on His right and the other on His left.
- Matthew 27:44 In the same way, even the robbers who were crucified with Him berated Him.
- Mark 7:21–22 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, …
- Mark 11:17 Then Jesus began to teach them, and He declared, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- Mark 15:27 Along with Jesus, they crucified two robbers, one on His right and one on His left.
- Luke 18:20 You know the commandments: ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’”
- Luke 19:45–46 Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there. …
- John 10:1 “Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.
- Romans 2:21 you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
- Romans 13:9 The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 1 Corinthians 6:8 Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
- Ephesians 4:28 He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.
- Titus 2:10 not stealing from them, but showing all good faith, so that in every respect they will adorn the teaching about God our Savior.
- 1 Peter 4:15 Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
- Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
- Revelation 9:21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
Judas
- John 12:6 Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.
Micah
- Judges 17:2 said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse— I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
The Spies of Laish
- Judges 18:14–27 Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.” …
Related topics
TheftTheft and Thieves by Rachel, of the Household Gods (Teraphim)RestitutionTeraphim used by Micah, Stolen by the DanitesDishonestyFine
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.