71 Bible Verses about The Devil Is A Thief

John 10:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 8:44 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 12:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

James 4:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

Revelation 20:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Romans 13:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.

John 10:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.

Revelation 16:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

Revelation 3:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Behold, I will make those of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that I have loved you.

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

James 1:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one. But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Hebrews 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Ephesians 6:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

2 Corinthians 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 10:9-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?

Acts 26:17-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Delivering you from your people and from the Gentiles—to whom I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

John 18:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

John 11:1-57 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. ...

John 10:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.

John 10:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

John 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.

John 10:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

John 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.

John 10:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

John 10:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 10:1-42 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ...

John 9:1-41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ...

John 5:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life.

Luke 23:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

Luke 23:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him.

Luke 22:31-32 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”

Mark 15:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And with him they crucified two robbers, one on his right and one on his left.

Matthew 27:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

Matthew 27:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left.

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 21:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”

Matthew 20:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Matthew 13:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Isaiah 14:12-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.

Isaiah 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!

Proverbs 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.

Proverbs 6:30-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Deuteronomy 24:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

Exodus 21:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Whoever steals a man and sells him, and anyone found in possession of him, shall be put to death.