📝 Theft
This study lists scriptures on theft being a sin unto death.
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John 10:10
- The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
Commandments
Exodus 20:15
- Thou shalt not steal.
Leviticus 19:11
- Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Deuteronomy 5:19
- Neither shalt thou steal.
Matthew 19:18-19
- 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,
- Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Mark 10:19
- Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.
Luke 18:20
- Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother.
Romans 13:9
- For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Sin unto death
1 Corinthians 6:9-10
- Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
- Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Warning
1 John 2:4
- He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
James 2:26
- For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Matthew 7:21-23
- Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
- Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
- And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Do
Sin no more
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 Peter 4:15
- But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.
Ezekiel 33:14-16
- Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;
- [If] the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Restore
Leviticus 6:4-5
- 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.
Proverbs 6:30-31
- Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
- But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Exodus 22:1-4
- 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 a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him.
- 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.
- If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double.
2 Samuel 12:6
- And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.
References
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