Top Bible Verses About Stealing

Exodus 20:15:

“You shall not steal.”

Leviticus 19:11:

“You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another.”

Proverbs 6:30-31:

“People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.”

Matthew 19:18:

“He said to him, ‘Which ones?’ And Jesus said, ‘You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness,’”

Romans 13:9:

“For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,’ and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”

Ephesians 4:28:

“Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.”

1 Corinthians 6:10:

“Nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”

Proverbs 28:24:

“Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, ‘That is no transgression,’ is a companion to a man who destroys.”

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Proverbs 10:2:

“Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.”

Luke 12:33:

“Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.”

1 Peter 4:15:

“But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.”

Deuteronomy 5:19:

“‘And you shall not steal.”

Psalm 50:18:

“If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.”

Matthew 6:19-20:

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.”

Luke 19:8-9:

“And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, ‘Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.’ And Jesus said to him, ‘Today salvation has come to this house, since he also is a son of Abraham.’”

1 Timothy 6:10:

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.”

Zechariah 5:3:

“Then he said to me, ‘This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.”

Exodus 22:7:

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

Proverbs 21:6:

“The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.”

Jeremiah 7:9:

“Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, make offerings to Baal, and go after other gods that you have not known,”

Exodus 21:16:

“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.”

Job 20:19:

“For he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he did not build.”

Proverbs 22:22-23:

“Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.”

Micah 2:2:

“They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.”

Amos 8:5:

“Saying, ‘When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,”

Zechariah 5:4:

“I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall remain in his house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

Isaiah 61:8:

“For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.”

Hosea 4:2:

“There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.”

Obadiah 1:15:

“For the day of the Lord is near upon all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.”

Malachi 3:8-9:

“Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you.”