Theft
44 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
33 sections
- Achan
- All Earthly Treasure Exposed To
- Brings a Curse on Those Who Commit It
- Brings the Wrath of God Upon Those Who Commit It
- Connected with Murder
- Defiles a Man
- Excludes from Heaven
- Forbidden
- from the Poor Specially Forbidden
- Heavenly Treasure Secure From
- Illustrates the Guilt of False Teachers
- Includes Fraud Concerning Wages
- Includes Fraud in General
- Micah
- Mosaic Law Respecting
- Proceeds from the Heart
- Rachel
- Saints: Warned Against
- Shame Follows the Detection of
- Shechemites
- The Wicked: Addicted To
- The Wicked: Associate with Those Who Commit
- The Wicked: Commit, Under Shelter of the Night
- The Wicked: Consent to Show Who Commit
- The Wicked: Destroy Themselves By
- The Wicked: Lie in Wait to Commit
- The Wicked: May, for a Season, Prosper In
- The Wicked: Plead Excuses For
- The Wicked: Repent not of
- The Wicked: Store up the Fruits of
- They Who Connive At: Hate Their own Souls
- They Who Connive At: Shall be Reproved of God
- Woe Denounced Against
Achan
- Joshua 7:21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
All Earthly Treasure Exposed To
- Matthew 6:19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Brings a Curse on Those Who Commit It
- Hosea 4:2–3 Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another. …
- Zechariah 5:3–4 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. …
- Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and …
Brings the Wrath of God Upon Those Who Commit It
- 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.
- Ezekiel 22:31 So I have poured out My indignation upon them and consumed them with the fire of My fury. I have brought their ways down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
Connected with Murder
- Jeremiah 7:9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,
- Hosea 4:2 Cursing and lying, murder and stealing, and adultery are rampant; one act of bloodshed follows another.
Defiles a Man
- Matthew 15:20 These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
Excludes from Heaven
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.
Forbidden
- Exodus 20:15 You shall not steal.
- Mark 10:19 You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
- 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.”
from the Poor Specially Forbidden
- Proverbs 22:2 The rich and the poor have this in common: The LORD is Maker of them all.
Heavenly Treasure Secure From
- Matthew 6:20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
- Luke 12:33 Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Illustrates the Guilt of False Teachers
- Jeremiah 23:30 “Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
- 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.
- John 10:8 All who came before Me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.
- John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life, and have it in all its fullness.
Includes Fraud Concerning Wages
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
- Malachi 3:5 “Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and …
- James 5:4 Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
Includes Fraud in General
- Leviticus 19:13 You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
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!”
Mosaic Law Respecting
- Exodus 22:1–8 “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. …
Proceeds from the Heart
- Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Rachel
- Genesis 31:19 Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Saints: Warned Against
- 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.
- 1 Peter 4:15 Indeed, none of you should suffer as a murderer or thief or wrongdoer, or even as a meddler.
Shame Follows the Detection of
- 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
Shechemites
- Judges 9:25 The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
The Wicked: Addicted To
- Psalm 119:61 Though the ropes of the wicked bind me, I do not forget Your law.
The Wicked: Associate with Those Who Commit
- Isaiah 1:23 Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
The Wicked: Commit, Under Shelter of the Night
- Job 24:14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
- 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?
The Wicked: Consent to Show Who Commit
- Psalm 50:18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
The Wicked: Destroy Themselves By
- Proverbs 21:7 The violence of the wicked will sweep them away because they refuse to do what is just.
The Wicked: Lie in Wait to Commit
- Hosea 6:9 Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.
The Wicked: May, for a Season, Prosper In
- Job 12:6 The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure — those who carry their god in their hands.
The Wicked: Plead Excuses For
- 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, …
The Wicked: Repent not of
- Revelation 9:21 Furthermore, they did not repent of their murder, sorcery, sexual immorality, and theft.
The Wicked: Store up the Fruits of
- Amos 3:10 “For they know not how to do right,” declares the LORD. “They store up violence and destruction in their citadels.”
They Who Connive At: Hate Their own Souls
- Proverbs 29:24 A partner to a thief hates his own soul; he receives the oath but does not testify.
They Who Connive At: Shall be Reproved of God
- Psalm 50:18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
- Psalm 50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
Woe Denounced Against
- Isaiah 10:2 to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
- Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Related topics
Theft and ThievesTheft and Thieves by Rachel, of the Household Gods (Teraphim)Theft is an Abomination
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.