Exodus 20:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, nor his field, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any of his cattle, nor any thing belonging to thy neighbour.

⁶ And the woman saw that the tree was good for food; and that it is delightful to see with the eyes; and that to exercise understanding is comely, so having taken some of the fruit thereof, she ate and gave also to her husband with her. And when they had eaten,

²³ that of all which belong to thee I will not take from a thread to a shoe latchet; that thou mayest not say, I have made Abram rich;

²³ Will not their cattle and four footed beasts and all their substance become ours? Let us only be like them in this, and they will dwell with us.

²¹ I saw, among the spoil, a piece of tissue, and two hundred didrachms of silver, and an ingot of gold, of about fifty didrachms, and I coveted them, and took them, and behold they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under them.

¹⁹ Why then didst thou not hearken to the voice of the Lord, but rush upon the spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?

² And it happened, that one afternoon, David arose from his couch, and walked on the roof of the king's house, and from the top of the house he saw a woman bathing, and she was very beautiful. ³ So David sent and sought out the woman, and one said, Is not this Bersabe, the daughter of Eliab, the wife of Ourias, the Chettite? ⁴ Whereupon David sent messengers, and took her, and went in unto her, and lay with her. And when she had purified herself from her uncleanness, she returned to her house.

¹ I made a covenant with mine eyes, that I would not gaze on a virgin:

⁹ If my heart hath gone after another man's wife, or if I have lain in wait at her gates;

³ Because the sinner is praised for the desires of his soul; therefore he who committeth injustice is blessed.

³⁶ Incline my heart to thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

²³ Guard thy heart with all diligence; for out of these are the issues of life.

²⁴ to keep thee from a married woman; and from the flattering tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Let not a lust for beauty overcome thee: be not captivated by thine eyes, nor ensnared by her eyelids.

⁸ Here is a single individual who hath no second; at least he hath neither son nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labour. His eye is not satisfied with riches, yet doth he say, For whom do I labour and deprive my soul of good? Surely this is vanity and a sore vexation.

¹⁰ A lover of silver cannot be satisfied with silver; but did any one ever love what the abundance of this produceth? Surely this is vanity. ¹¹ By an abundance of wealth they who consume it are multiplied. And what is the mighty advantage of the owner from it? That he hath the first sight of it with his eyes?

¹⁵ He who is walking in righteousness, speaking of a straight way; who hateth iniquity and injustice; who shaketh his hands from bribes; who stoppeth his ears that he may not hear a bloody sentence; who shutteth his eyes against the appearance of injustice:

¹⁷ Because of sin I grieved him a little while and smote him and turned away my face from him; and he was grieved and went his ways sorrowing;

⁸ They became furious wanton steeds; they neighed every one for his neigh hour's wife.

¹⁷ Behold thine eyes are not good, neither is thy heart; but they are bent upon thine inordinate desires and on the shedding of innocent blood, and on injustice, and on murder; that thou mayst perpetrate these things.

³¹ They come to thee as people assemble; and they sit before thee and hear thy words, but will not do them, because there is a lie in their mouth, and their heart goeth after their pollutions;

⁶ Thus saith the Lord, For the three transgressions of Israel, and for four, shall I not be averse from him? Because they sold a righteous one for silver and a needy one for a pair of sandals; ⁷ and dashed their sandals against the heads of the poor; and turned aside the way of the meek; and a son and a father went in unto the same handmaid. That they might profane the name of their God,

² They coveted fields and plundered orphans and tyrannised over houses; they plundered a man and his household; a man and his inheritance;

⁹ Woe to him who coveteth wicked gain for his house, that he

²⁸ But I say to you, whoever looketh on a married woman so as to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁵ Is it not lawful for me to do what I please with mine own? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

¹⁵ Then he said to them, Take heed and be upon your guard against covetousness. For in what affluence soever a man may be, his life doth not depend on his possessions.

¹⁴ When the Pharisees who loved money heard all these things they treated him with scorn.

⁴ While it remained, did it not remain thine? And when sold it was still at thine own disposal. Why then hast thou determined this thing in thy heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

³³ I have coveted no man's silver or gold, or raiment.

⁷ What shall we say then? Is the law sin? No, by no means. Indeed I should not have known sin, had it not been for the law. For I should not have known covetousness, had not the law said, "Thou shall not covet"

⁹ for this: Thou shalt not commit adultery; Thou shall not murder; Thou shalt not steal; Thou shalt not bear false witness; Thou shall not covet; and whatever other commandment there be, is summed up in this commandment, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

¹⁰ nor thieves, nor such as indulge inordinate desires, nor drunkards, nor railers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

³ And let not fornication, nor uncleanness of any sort, nor inordinate desire, be so much as named among you, as becometh saints;

⁵ For this you know that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lewd libertine, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

¹⁹ Their end is destruction; their God is their belly; and their glory is their shame. Their minds are bent on earthly things.

⁵ Mortify, therefore, with regard to your members which are on earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate passions, wicked desire, and that licentiousness, which is idolatry,

⁶ Now this religion, with contentment, is a great gain. ⁷ For we brought nothing into this world; and it is evident that we can carry nothing out of it. ⁸ Having then food and raiment let us be content with these. ⁹ But they who determine to be rich, fall headlong into temptation, and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful desires, which plunge men into ruin and destruction. ¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; to gratify which, some have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁵ Let your conduct be free from avarice. Be content with what you have; for he hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor will I ever forsake thee."