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  1. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  2. I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.
  3. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor’s house or land, his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
  4. The images of their gods you are to burn in the fire. Do not covet the silver and gold on them, and do not take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.
  5. When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
  6. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
  7. I have not coveted anyone’s silver or gold or clothing.
  8. The Law and Sin

    What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”
  9. But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
  10. The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
  11. You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
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15 topical index results for “covet”

ANANIAS : A covetous member of church at Jerusalem. Falsehood and death of (Acts 5:1-11)
GEHAZI : Covetousness of, and the judgment of leprosy upon (2 Kings 5:20-27)
MICAH » One of the minor prophets » The oppressions of the covetous (Micah 2:1-11)
SELF-DENIAL » INSTANCES OF » Paul, in not coveting anyone's silver, gold, or apparel (Acts 20:33)