Bible verses about "coveting" | Worrell

³³ But seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.

²⁸ Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.

³³ I coveted no one's silver, or gold, or apparel. ³⁴ Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

³ But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

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

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

⁷ What, then, shall we say? Is the law sin? It could not be! But I had not known sin, except through law; for I would not know even coveting, if the law did not say, "You shall not covet;"

¹⁴ But each one is tempted, when by his own desire he is drawn away and enticed. ¹⁵ Then the desire, having conceived, brings forth sin; and sin, when completed, brings forth death.

²⁰ And He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. ²¹ For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²² covetings, wickednesses, deceit, wantonness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: ²³ all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man."

³ Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it on your pleasures.