Theft

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Zechariah 5:3 OT

  Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the…

• Zechariah 5:4 OT

  I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber…

• 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.

• Ezekiel 22:31 OT

  Therefore I have poured out my indignation on them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have brought their own way on their heads,” says the Lord Yahweh.

• 1 Corinthians 6:10 NT

  nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Proverbs 29:24 OT

  Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

• Psalms 50:21 OT

  You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

• Exodus 22:1-8 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…

• Ephesians 4:28 NT

  Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

• 1 Peter 4:15 NT

  For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil doer, or a meddler in other men’s matters.

• Matthew 6:19 NT

  “Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

• Matthew 6:20 NT

  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don’t break through and steal;

• Luke 12:33 NT

  Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

• Isaiah 10:2 OT

  to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!

• Nahum 3:1 OT

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

• Jeremiah 23:30 OT

  “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

• John 10:1 NT

  “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

• John 10:8 NT

  All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

• John 10:10 NT

  The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

• Genesis 31:19 OT

  Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep; and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

• Joshua 7:21 OT

  When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with…

• Judges 9:25 OT

  The men of Shechem set an ambush for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who came along that way by them; and Abimelech was told about it.

• Judges 17:2 OT

  He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”