STEALING
(See also Burglary; Cheating; Fraud; Piracy; Robbery; Shoplifting; Smuggling)
aluminum:
for scrap: g89 1/22 30
appreciation for Awake! articles on:
prisoner: g96 2/22 30
youth who couldn’t stop: g96 2/22 30
archaeological treasures:
Mesopotamia: g98 4/22 29
art treasures:
Italy: g94 1/8 28
Peru: g 7/06 29
attitude of public: g93 8/8 3
automobiles:
cost: g95 5/8 28
electronic locating devices: g93 4/22 29; g86 3/8 31
entrapping thieves: g91 2/22 29
hijacking: g 10/06 12-14; w93 10/15 5; g92 10/8 29; g90 7/8 29
locating by satellite: g91 9/22 28
what victim should do: g05 10/8 29
Bible examples: lr 127-131
Achan: mwb21.09 8; it-1 41, 622-623; w10 4/15 20-21; w04 12/1 11; my story 47; si 43; w86 12/15 19-20
Judas Iscariot: it-2 129; lr 128-129
Rachel: it-2 1087-1088
Satan: lr 127
Bible view: scl 110; it-2 1093; w17.10 22; wp16.1 5; w10 3/1 12-14; w10 5/15 30; w10 9/15 20; w06 11/15 7; wt 58-59; rq 20-21; g95 6/22 17-19; w94 4/15 20-21; w93 10/15 4, 6; tp 166-167
“borrowing” congregation funds: jd 105-106; w94 4/15 19-20
buying stolen goods: rq 20-21; w92 6/15 30-31
“everybody does it”: w10 3/1 13
finders keepers: w10 3/1 13-14; g93 8/8 9-10
poor people: w10 3/1 12-14; w05 5/15 5; w98 1/15 18; g97 11/8 18-19; w90 11/15 4-7; w89 12/15 29
retaliation against thief: w93 10/15 5
taking things without permission: lr 131; rq 20-21
teaching children: g16.3 5; g 7/15 2; lr 127-131
cactus:
saguaro: g 8/09 30
cheating a form of: g86 6/8 12
Code of Hammurabi: re 13
computer fraud: g 5/13 8-9; g89 10/8 28; g87 9/8 27
computer software: w10 6/1 14
countermeasures:
high tech: g97 10/8 29
dogs used for detecting stolen objects: g89 9/8 29
effect of cheap imports: g 12/10 29
electricity: g01 2/22 29; g88 2/8 30
end forever: w93 10/15 6-7
examples:
attempt to cover investors’ losses: w97 7/15 13
gangs invade beach: w93 10/15 3
money spilled from armored truck: g93 8/8 3
shoots watch snatcher: w93 10/15 4-5
steals meals to go to prison: g95 5/8 28
strip house and jewelry store at gunpoint: w93 10/15 4
thief logs thefts for police: g87 4/8 30
thief wants pay for returning purse: g86 7/8 31
trapped earthquake victim robbed: g90 2/22 21
experiences:
answering idea that it is morally right to steal at times: yb97 62
burglar refuses to steal from Witness home: g86 6/8 21
feisty thief transforms life: yb11 138-139
lives transformed: w10 11/1 18-19; w09 2/1 26-27; yb09 44; w05 12/15 11; w97 12/1 6; w93 10/15 6
scripture leads thief to confess: yb06 47-48
stolen goods returned: jv 178-179; w90 2/15 6; w86 11/15 14
stolen money returned: yb01 56-57; g99 4/8 32; yb98 53
thief’s conscience wins out: g94 1/8 32
thief who attempted suicide: g 7/06 11-13
thieves from youth: wp16.1 7; w00 11/1 6
thieves turn themselves in: jv 178-179
Witnesses accused of theft vindicated: yb05 18; w01 5/1 19
Witnesses allowed to leave: w93 10/15 5
farm crops: g00 4/8 28
food: g 11/12 29
from the government:
Canada: g87 5/22 30
graduates of “theft school”: g94 9/8 28
hijacking of trucks: g86 5/22 29-30
hotels:
dictionaries stolen, Bibles not: g87 8/22 30
icons (Russia): g 9/08 29
identity theft: g 5/13 8-9; g 8/08 30; g04 7/22 5-6; g01 1/22 29; g01 3/22 19-21; g01 12/8 30
kleptomania: g05 6/22 5
Law covenant:
eighth commandment: it-2 1086
penalties: cl 133-134; it-1 494; it-2 1093; w05 8/1 14
library books: g94 12/22 29; g91 6/22 29
looting:
“Christians” participate: yb93 44
clergy approve: g98 11/8 28
manhole covers: g96 4/8 28
meaning of term: wp16.1 5
nuclear weapons:
risk increased by disassembly of: g96 4/22 6
pickpockets:
Los Chileanos in London: g89 12/22 29
radioactive materials: g 7/09 30
religious objects: g01 12/8 28
items stolen to order: g96 2/22 28
rides on trains: w86 11/15 10
shopping carts: g86 3/22 30-31
sodas from vending machines: g89 7/8 29
trees:
stink bombs help prevent: g90 12/22 24
whether ever justified: w10 3/1 12-14; w98 1/15 18; g97 11/8 18-19; g94 3/22 5-6
why people steal: g05 6/22 4-5; w93 10/15 3-4
youths: g95 6/22 17-18
wigs worn by British barristers and judges: g90 4/8 29
workplace: g 3/12 28; g90 11/22 28; g89 8/8 28; tp 18
materials: w88 2/15 4-5
time: w88 2/15 3-4
youths: g95 6/22 17-19