Bible verses about "covet" | LEB

Matthew 6:19-21

19 "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming insect* destroy and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor consuming insect* destroy and where thieves do not break in or steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Romans 13:8-10

8 Owe nothing to anyone, except to love one another, for the one who loves someone else has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit murder, you shall not steal, you shall not covet,"* and if there is any other commandment, are summed up in this statement: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."* 10 Love does not commit evil against a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

1 Timothy 6:10

10 For the love of money is a root of all evil, by which some, because they* desire it, have gone astray from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.

Exodus 20:17

17 "You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you will not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor's."

Luke 12:15

15 And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not even when someone has an abundance does* his life consist of his possessions."

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