Exod 20:15 “Thou shalt not steal.”
“Stealing is the natural propensity of the old man, and it is indulged in many ways that no human law can take hold of (cf. Ephesians 4:28; 1 Thessalonians 4:6).” (Jamieson, Fausset, Brown) Once we come to faith in Jesus to save, we should as Zacchaeus stand up and say, to the Lord: "Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount." (Luke 19:8)
It matters not if thievery “springs from the sense of necessity: this it is which, as you remember, gives such tragic power to Victor Hugo’s ‘Les Miserables,’ whose hero, Jean Valjean, stole a loaf of bread. (G. D. Boardman) “The portion of worldly things allotted us, as far as it is obtained in an honest way, is the bread which God hath given us; for that we ought to be thankful, to be contented with it, and, in the use of lawful means, to trust Providence for the future.” (C. H. Spurgeon) “He who steals must steal no longer; but rather he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good, so that he will have something to share with one who has need.” (Ephesians 4:28)
"8 Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches— feed me with the food allotted to me; 9 lest I be full and deny You, and say, 'Who is the Lord?' Or lest I be poor and steal,And profane the name of my God." (Proverbs 30)
Thievery- “Since charity is the end of the Law, we must seek the definition of theft from thence.” (John Calvin) “Whatever we enjoy of worldly plenty is given us in trust, that we should take our own share with moderation, and distribute out the remainder with liberality. (Archbishop Thomas Secker) See Leviticus 23:22 for care for the circumstantial needy. And: “Is it not significant that God claimed tithes? (Malachi 3) Not to pay a tenth of His income into the temple treasury God considered a sacrilege in a Jew. Do we give a tenth to God?” (W. Senior, B. A.) And finally brethren, remember that “the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.” (1 Thessalonians 4:6)