Theft and Thieves

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 20:15 OT

  “You shall not steal.

• Exodus 21:16 OT

  “Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

• Exodus 22:1-4 OT

  “If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him. If…

• Exodus 22:10-15 OT

  “If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it; the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s…

• Leviticus 6:2-7 OT

  “If anyone sins, and commits a trespass against Yahweh, and deals falsely with his neighbor in a matter of deposit, or of bargain, or of robbery, or has oppressed his neighbor, or has found that which was lost, and lied about it, and…

• Leviticus 19:11 OT

  “ ‘You shall not steal. “ ‘You shall not lie. “ ‘You shall not deceive one another.

• Leviticus 19:13 OT

  “ ‘You shall not oppress your neighbor, nor rob him. “ ‘The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

• Deuteronomy 5:19 OT

  “You shall not steal.

• Deuteronomy 23:24 OT

  When you come into your neighbor’s vineyard, then you may eat your fill of grapes at your own pleasure; but you shall not put any in your container.

• Deuteronomy 23:25 OT

  When you come into your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the ears with your hand; but you shall not use a sickle on your neighbor’s standing grain.

• Psalms 50:18 OT

  When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.

• Psalms 62:10 OT

  Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

• Psalms 119:61 OT

  The ropes of the wicked bind me, but I won’t forget your law.

• Proverbs 6:30 OT

  Men don’t despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

• Proverbs 6:31 OT

  but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

• Proverbs 21:7 OT

  The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

• Isaiah 61:8 OT

  “For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

• Jeremiah 2:26 OT

  As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so the house of Israel is ashamed: they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets,

• Jeremiah 7:9 OT

  Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

• Jeremiah 7:10 OT

  then come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered,’ that you may do all these abominations?

• Ezekiel 22:29 OT

  The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

• Hosea 4:1 OT

  Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

• Hosea 4:2 OT

  There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

• Nahum 3:1 OT

  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.