What does the Bible say about theft?

Answer 1

Greed is pretty much at the root of the world's problems today.

Satan, once a perfect angel, became greedy, desiring to have people worship HIM instead of God. He got Adam and Eve to follow him instead of the creator, thus setting himself up as an opposing god. (2 Corin 4:3,4) His greed ultiimately lead to the death of all mankind.

When Adam and Eve were created, they had everything they could possibly want...

a perfect paradise home, a wonderful relationship with each other and with God and an endless future raising a happy family and together working to turn the whole earth into a paradise like Eden, but they took their wonderful gift of FREE WILL and CHOSE, with satan's urging, to become greedy and want even things that did NOT belong to them. (Genesis 2:15-17)(Genesis 3:1-7, 17-19) Because of their greed they became disobedient to God and thus IMperfect, so, like a cake pan with a dent in it, every cake you make from that pan, will have the same dent as part of it's makeup, so every child that came from Adam and Eve was also imperfect, "dented' if you will....getting more and more so as the generations passed. With imperfection came sickness and death, and so here we are.

So The Bible speaks very strongly against greed.

1 Corinthians 6:9, 10 and Ephesians 5:5 tell us that 'greedy persons will NOT inherit God's Kingdom'.

It's so serious that in Ephesians 5:3 Paul said: "Let fornication and uncleanness of every sort or greedinessnot even be mentioned among you"

At Ephesians 4:17-19, 28 we're told that rather than becoming greedy, wanting something that's not ours, we should work hard to buy our own, and have extra to give others in need.

1 Corinthians 5:11 tells Christians not to even associate with a greedy person,

Titus 1:7,8 and 1 Timothy 3:8 tell us that anyone who is in a leadership position in the true Christian congregation, must NOT be greedy.

In the 'last days' JUST before God steps in with his Kingdom, to end all the problems in the world, one of the signs of the times would be greed. The Bible says: "In the last days......men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money..." 2 Tim 3:1-5.

And this is what we see today.

Answer 2

Some examples from the KJV you can look up:

Exodus 18:21

Exodus 20:17

Deuteronomy 5:21

Joshua 7:21

Psalm 119:36

Proverbs 21:26

Proverbs 28:16

Isaiah 57:17

Jeremiah 6:13

Habakkuk 2:9

Mark 7:22

Luke 12:15

Romans 7:7

Romans 13:9

1 Corinthians 5:10-11

2 Corinthians 9:5

Ephesians 5:3-5

Colossians 3:5

1 Timothy 3:3

2 Timothy 3:2

Hebrews 13:5

2 Peter 2:3

2 Peter 2:14

Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Answer 3

Consider this proverb where stingy is also called an evil eye in the KJV/NKJV:

Proverbs 28:22

New International Version (NIV)

22 The stingy are eager to get rich

and are unaware that poverty awaits them.

Now consider the instruction Jesus Christ gave:

Luke 6:38

New International Version (NIV)

38 Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Answer 4

Exodus 22:3, 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.

Answer 5

the word covet means to want what someone else has. the very thing that got satan booted out of heaven. thou shalt not covet is one of the ten commandments.