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Theft violates the 8th commandment of [[Decalogue]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%2020.15,%20Deuteronomy5.19,%20Matthew19.19,%20Mark10.19,%20Luke18.20&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>, and breaks the commandment of [[loving]] the neighbour.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans13.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Like other sins, theft defiles a person, because it comes out of the heart<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew15.10-20,%20Mark%207.20-23&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> and the sinner will not inherit the [[kingdom of God]]<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Corinthians6.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> if he doesn’t [[Repentance|repent]] of his sins, like [[Zacchaeus]], the chief tax collector.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lc19.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>

The law obliged the thief to pay double (in case of finding the stolen thing-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.4-9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>), four or five times (if it is an ox or a sheep, cut or sold-<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.1&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>) or seven times (if the thief steals because he is hungry) -<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs6.30-31&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>).If the thief wasn’t able to pay compensation for his theft by selling his things, he was sold as a slave.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus22.2-3&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV;RMNN</ref> If the thief [[Confession|confessed]] his sin, he was allowed to return the object, adding a fifth of its price and he brought to the [[priest]] as his compensation to the Lord a ram without blemish out of the flock, or its equivalent, for a guilt offering; and the priest made atonement for him before the Lord, and he was [[forgiven]]. If a thief was caught breaking in and was struck so that he died, the defender was not guilty of bloodshed;

The thief acts unexpectedly and he usualy lies in ambush , especially at night and in secluded places<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke12.35-40,%20Matthew24.42-44,%20Apocalipse3.3,16.5,%202Peter3.10,%201Thessalonians5.2,4,%20Proverbs23.28,%20Job24.14,%20Psalm74.20,%20Joel2.9,%20Jeremiah49.9&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>Zacchaeus brought [[salvation]] upon his house because he was decided to restore fourfold to those whom he had defrauded.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lc19.1-10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> The hypocritical thief is personified by [[Judas]], who took secretly his part from the money [[Jesus]] and the [[apostles]] raised for helping the [[poor]]; he disliked Mary ointed Jesus with pure nard, pretending hypocritically it would have been useful if the nard would have been sold and the money given to the poor.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ioan%2012.3-8&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref> There were some [[PhariseesPharisee]] s like Judas: they stole, although preaching not to steal.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rom2.17-21&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>