Bible verses about "coveting" | Haweis

³³ But seek ye, in the first place, the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be given you over.

²⁸ Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

³³ The silver, or gold, or apparel of no man have I coveted: ³⁴ but ye yourselves know that these hands have by labour furnished necessaries for my own wants, and for those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I have set you the example, that so labouring hard ye ought to help the infirm, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

³ But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

⁸ And God is able to make all grace abound towards you; that in every case having always all sufficiency, ye may abound unto every good work:

¹⁰ For the love of money is the root of all evils, which some coveting, have wandered away from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

⁷ What then shall we say? Is the law sin? God forbid. Yea, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not even known concupiscence, unless the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

¹⁴ but every person is tempted, when by his own peculiar passion he is born away, and ensnared. ¹⁵ Then passion impregnated, bringeth forth sin, and sin reaching its consummation, bringeth forth death.

²⁰ But, said he, what cometh out of a man, that makes a man unclean. ²¹ For from within out of the heart of men proceed wicked reasonings, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, inordinate cravings, mischievous actions, knavery, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, folly: ²³ all these wicked things come from within, and render a person unclean.

³ Ye ask, and receive nothing, because ye ask vilely, in order to consume it on your sensual appetites.