Exodus 21:16 And he that
stealeth a man, and
selleth him, or if he be
found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 6:1-
7 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, ... And the priest shall
make an atonement for him before the LORD: and
it shall be forgiven him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.
Leviticus 19:11 Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither
lie one to another.
Leviticus 19:13 Thou
shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [
him]:
the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
Leviticus 19:35-
37 Ye shall do
no unrighteousness in judgment,
in meteyard, in weight, or in measure. ... Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I [
am] the LORD.
Deuteronomy 24:7 If a man be
found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him;
then that thief shall die;
and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 25:13-
16 Thou shalt not have
in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. ... For
all that do such things, [
and] all that do unrighteously, [
are] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Job 20:19-
22 Because he hath
oppressed [
and] hath forsaken the poor; [
because]
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; ... In
the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits:
every hand of the
wicked shall come upon him.
Proverbs 1:13-
15 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: ... My son,
walk not thou in the way with them;
refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 11:1 A false balance [is] abomination to the LORD: but
a just weight [
is] his delight.
Amos 3:10 For
they know not to do right, saith the LORD,
who store up violence and
robbery in their palaces.
Amos 8:4-
6 Hear this, O ye that
swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, ... That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; [
yea], and sell the refuse of the wheat?
Micah 6:10-
11 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,
and the
scant measure [
that is] abominable? ... Shall I
count [them] pure with the wicked balances, and with
the bag of deceitful weights?
Micah 7:3 That they may
do evil with both hands earnestly,
the prince asketh, and the judge [
asketh] for a reward; and
the great [
man], he uttereth
his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Zechariah 5:3-
4 Then said he unto me, This [
is]
the curse that goeth forth over
the face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off [
as] on this side according to it; and every one that
sweareth shall be cut off [
as] on that side according to it. ... I will bring it forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name:
and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
Matthew 15:19 For
out of the heart proceed
evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Matthew 19:18 He saith unto him,
Which? Jesus said,
Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Matthew 21:13 And said unto them,
It is written,
My house shall be called the house of prayer; but
ye have made it a den of thieves.
Luke 3:13-
14 And he said unto them,
Exact no more than that which is appointed you. ... And
the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them,
Do violence to no man, neither
accuse [
any] falsely;
and be content with your
wages.
John 12:6 This he said,
not that he cared for the poor; but
because he was a thief, and had
the bag, and bare what was put therein.
1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor
thieves, nor
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 4:28 Let
him that stole
steal no more: but rather let him
labour, working with [
his] hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to
give to him that needeth.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That no [
man]
go beyond and
defraud his brother
in [any] matter: because that the Lord [
is] the avenger of all such,
as we also have forewarned you and testified.
