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Ephesians 4:28
Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.
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Romans 13:9
The commandments, Do not commit adultery; do not murder; do not steal; do not covet; and any other commandment, are summed up by this commandment: Love your neighbor as yourself.
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Leviticus 19:11
“ Do not steal. Do not act deceptively or lie to one another.
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Matthew 19:18
“ Which ones?” he asked him. Jesus answered: Do not murder; do not commit adultery; do not steal; do not bear false witness;
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Leviticus 19:13
“ Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages due a hired worker must not remain with you until morning.
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Leviticus 6:1-7
The LORD spoke to Moses:“ When someone sins and offends the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit, a security, or a robbery; or defrauds his neighbor;or finds something lost and lies about it; or swears falsely about any of the sinful things a person may do—once he has sinned and acknowledged his guilt— he must return what he stole or defrauded, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost item he found,or anything else about which he swore falsely. He will make full restitution for it and add a fifth of its value to it. He is to pay it to its owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.Then he is to bring his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram from the flock according to your assessment of its value as a guilt offering to the priest.In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf before the LORD, and he will be forgiven for anything he may have done to incur guilt.”
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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John 12:6
He didn’t say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the money-bag and would steal part of what was put in it.
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Proverbs 1:13-15
We’ll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder.Throw in your lot with us, and we’ll all share the loot”—my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,
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Leviticus 19:35-37
“ Do not be unfair in measurements of length, weight, or volume.You are to have honest balances, honest weights, an honest dry measure, and an honest liquid measure; I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.Keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and do them; I am the LORD.”
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Luke 3:13-14
He told them,“ Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”Some soldiers also questioned him,“ What should we do?” He said to them,“ Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”
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Proverbs 11:1
Dishonest scales are detestable to the LORD, but an accurate weight is his delight.
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1 Corinthians 6 10
no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom.
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Deuteronomy 24:7
“ If a man is discovered kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. You must purge the evil from you.
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Exodus 21:16
“ Whoever kidnaps a person must be put to death, whether he sells him or the person is found in his possession.
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Job 20:19-22
For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.Because his appetite is never satisfied, he does not let anything he desires escape.Nothing is left for him to consume; therefore, his prosperity will not last.At the height of his success distress will come to him; the full weight of misery will crush him.
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Deuteronomy 25:13-16
“ Do not have differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.Do not have differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.You must have a full and honest weight, a full and honest dry measure, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.For everyone who does such things and acts unfairly is detestable to the LORD your God.
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Zechariah 5:3-4
Then he said to me,“ This is the curse that is going out over the whole land, for everyone who is a thief, contrary to what is written on one side, has gone unpunished, and everyone who swears falsely, contrary to what is written on the other side, has gone unpunished.I will send it out,”— this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies—“ and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”
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1 Thessalonians 4 6
This means one must not transgress against and take advantage of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
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Matthew 21:13
He said to them,“ It is written, my house will be called a house of prayer, but you are making it a den of thieves!”
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Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
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Micah 7:3
Both hands are good at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.
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Amos 3:10
The people are incapable of doing right— this is the LORD’s declaration— those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.
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Micah 6:10-11
Are there still the treasures of wickedness and the accursed short measure in the house of the wicked?Can I excuse wicked scales or bags of deceptive weights?