Bible verses about "covet" | Anderson

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal. ²⁰ But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes, and where thieves do not break through, nor steal. ²¹ For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

⁸ Owe no one any thing, except to love one another; for he that loves another, has fulfilled the law. ⁹ For these commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not indulge evil desire; and if there is any other commandment, all are summed up in this saying, namely: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. ¹⁰ Love works no evil to our neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law.

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evil; through the desire of which, some have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

¹⁵ And he said to them: Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life depends not on the abundance of his possessions.