Coveting
Desiring what belongs to another person, addressed by the tenth commandment: 'You shall not covet your neighbor's house... wife... or anything that belongs to your neighbor' (Exodus 20:17). Coveting is an inner sin that breeds external transgressions — Achan coveted spoils and stole them (Joshua 7:21), David coveted Bathsheba and committed adultery and murder (2 Samuel 11). Paul confessed that the command against coveting revealed his own sinfulness (Romans 7:7-8). Hebrews 13:5 offers the remedy: 'Be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."'
Verses about Coveting
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Êxodo 18:21
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rule…
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Êxodo 20:17
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 a…
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Deuteronômio 5:21
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…
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Josué 7:21
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I covet…
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Salmos 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
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Salmos 119:36
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
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Provérbios 28:16
The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.
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Isaías 57:17
For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
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Jeremias 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dea…
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Jeremias 8:10
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest …
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Jeremias 22:17
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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Jeremias 51:13
O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
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Ezequiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with the…
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Miquéias 2:2
And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Habacuque 2:9
Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
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Marcos 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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Lucas 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
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Lucas 16:14
And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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Atos 20:33
I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
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Romanos 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisper…