Quotes about Theft

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

“Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”

They will strip off your clothes and take your fine jewelry.

For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and steal his possessions, unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.

Indeed, no one can enter a strong man’s house to steal his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man. Then he can plunder his house.

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need

Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and loggin' on and stealing our music.

Property is organized robbery.

This feature of Israelite law stands in sharp contrast to many ancient law codes where certain thefts by certain people were punishable by death. Indeed, it contrasts with British law until fairly recent times (people were hanged for sheep-stealing in Britain until the nineteenth century). On the other hand, as mentioned above, theft of a person for gain (kidnapping) was a capital offence in Israel (21:16; Deut. 24:7). Stealing a human life was different from stealing property.