Bible Verses about “punishment for stealing”

“Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.”

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

“Thou shalt not steal.”

“¶ Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;”

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”

“If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:”

“To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.”

“If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.”

“Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].”

“Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.”

“From the sole of the foot even unto the head [there is] no soundness in it; [but] wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.”

“Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.”

“Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.”

“Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”

“And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:”

“If the sun be risen upon him, [there shall be] blood [shed] for him; [for] he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.”

“¶ The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

“¶ Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.”

“The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: [but] Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.”

“Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.”

“Your country [is] desolate, your cities [are] burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and [it is] desolate, as overthrown by strangers.”

“And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.”

“¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.”

“When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?”

“But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].”

“¶ How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”

“Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:”

“Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:”

“And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

“Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.”

“And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners [shall be] together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.”

“For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.”

“For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.”

“And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].”

“‹If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.›”

“Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,”

“¶ If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.”

“If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.”

“And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.”

“But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.”

“If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;”

“Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing which he found,”

“Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto, [and] give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.”

“Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:”

“[Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;”

“¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,”

“¶ Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.”

“And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.”

“Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time [is] evil.”

“In that day shall [one] take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed [it] from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.”