Exodus 20:17

The Ten Commandments

¹⁶ Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour. ¹⁷ “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” ¹⁸ And all the people saw the thunderings and the lightnings and the noise of the trumpet and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.

Male or Female

Romans 7:7

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, in no wise. But, I did not know sin except by the law; for neither would I have known lust if the law did not say, Thou shalt not covet.

Matthew 5:28

but I say unto you, That whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were as fed horses in the morning; each one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

Micah 2:2

And they coveted fields and stole them, and houses and took them away; so they oppressed the man and his house, even the man and his heritage.

Luke 12:15

And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

Romans 13:9

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not murder, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet, and if there is any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becomes saints,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

Hebrews 13:5

Let your conversation be without covetousness, and be content with such things as ye have; for he has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

Genesis 3:6

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was desirable to the eyes, and a tree of covetousness to understand, she took of its fruit and ate and gave also unto her husband with her; and he ate.

Genesis 14:23

that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet; I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou should say, I have made Abram rich,

Genesis 34:23

Shall not their livestock and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? Only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Joshua 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 coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

1 Samuel 15:19

Why then didst thou not hear the voice of the LORD but didst fly upon the spoil and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?

2 Samuel 11:2-4

And it came to pass one evening, that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house, and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself, and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

Job 31:1

I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I look upon a maid?

Job 31:9

If my heart has been deceived regarding a woman, or if I have laid in wait at my neighbour's door,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

Psalm 119:36

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

Proverbs 4:23

Above all else, guard thy heart; for out of it flows the issues of life.

Proverbs 6:24-25

to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity.

Isaiah 33:15

He that walks in righteousness, he that speaks uprightly; he that despises the gain of violence, he that shakes his hands from receiving bribes; he that stops his ears to not hear of blood; he who shuts his eyes to not see evil;

Isaiah 57:17

For the iniquity of his covetousness I was wroth and smote him: I hid my face and was wroth, and he went on rebelliously in the way of his heart.

Jeremiah 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.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they shall come unto thee as the people come, and they shall be before thee, my people, and they shall hear thy words, but they shall not do them; for with their mouth they flatter, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

Amos 2:6-7

Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Israel and for the fourth, I will not convert her because they sold the righteous for silver and the poor for a pair of shoes,

Habakkuk 2:9

Woe to him that covets ill-gotten gain by violence for his house that he may set his nest on high, that he may escape from the power of evil!

Matthew 20:15

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

Luke 16:14

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

Acts 5:4

Retaining it, was it not thy own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.

Acts 20:33

I have coveted no one's silver or gold or apparel.

1 Corinthians 6:10

nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:5

For this ye know, that no fornicator nor unclean person nor covetous man, who is also an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Philippians 3:19

whose end shall be perdition, whose God is their belly and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things).

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But piety with contentment is great gain.