What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Let it not be! But I did not know sin if not through law; for also I did not know lusting if not the law said, “You shall not lust.” Ex. 20:17
And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that to the eyes it was to be desired, and the tree was desirable to make one wise. And she took of its fruit and ate; and she also gave to her husband with her, and he ate.
And it happened at evening time, David rose up from his bed and walked up and down on the roof of the king’s house. And he saw from the roof a woman bathing. And the woman was very good of form.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male slave, or his slave-girl, or his ox, or his ass, or anything which belongs to your neighbor.
For, “Do not commit adultery,” “do not murder,” “do not steal,” do not bear false witness, “do not covet,” Ex. 20:13-15, 17 and if there is any other commandment, in this Word it is summed up, in the words, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Lev. 19:18
But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is not God unrighteous inflicting wrath? I speak according to man.
Then has the good become death to me? Let it not be! But sin, that it might appear to be sin, having worked out death to me through the good, in order that sin might become excessively sinful through the commandment.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and not shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, and his male slave, and his female slave, his ox, and his ass, and anything which is your neighbor’s.
When I saw among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold, one of fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them, and took them. And behold, they are hidden in the earth, in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it.