'Covet' in the Bible
'The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.
For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Now these things [the warnings and admonitions] took place as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did.
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
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