Bible Verses About Property
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for property, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,316 votes, led by Leviticus 25:23. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Property
Leviticus 25:2395 votes
The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.
Proverbs 19:1455 votes
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
Exodus 20:1553 votes
Thou shalt not steal.
Deuteronomy 19:1451 votes
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deuteronomy 28:1-6843 votes
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Exodus 22:2-341 votes
If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
Psalms 24:141 votes
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
1 Timothy 5:835 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Exodus 20:1734 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Deuteronomy 27:1733 votes
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Exodus 22:1-3128 votes
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Ephesians 4:2827 votes
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Deuteronomy 5:1925 votes
Neither shalt thou steal.
Leviticus 19:1124 votes
Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.
Proverbs 23:1024 votes
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Numbers 33:53-5423 votes
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
Leviticus 25:1-5522 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
Proverbs 22:2822 votes
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Deuteronomy 5:2121 votes
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
1 Kings 21:1-2921 votes
And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
Jeremiah 32:719 votes
Behold, Hanameel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth: for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.
Job 24:217 votes
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
Proverbs 22:2217 votes
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
1 Corinthians 10:2617 votes
For the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
Leviticus 25:29-3016 votes
And if a man sell a dwelling house in a walled city, then he may redeem it within a whole year after it is sold; within a full year may he redeem it.
What does the Bible say about property?
Readers most often cite Leviticus 25:23 on the subject of property. Across 1,316 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 19:14, Exodus 20:15, Deuteronomy 19:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.