Exodus 20:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, male or female slave, ox, donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

Cross References

Genesis 14:23

that I would not take a thread or a sandal strap or anything that is yours, so that you might not say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’

Genesis 3:6

So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate.

Genesis 34:23

Will not their livestock, their property, and all their animals be ours? Only let us agree with them, and they will live among us.”

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how, then, could I look upon a virgin?

Job 31:9

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

Psalm 10:3

For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart; those greedy for gain curse and renounce the Lord.

Psalm 119:36

Turn my heart to your decrees and not to selfish gain.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Proverbs 6:29

So is he who sleeps with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Isaiah 33:15

Those who walk righteously and speak uprightly, who despise the gain of oppression, who wave away a bribe instead of accepting it, who stop their ears from hearing of bloodshed and shut their eyes from looking on evil,

Isaiah 57:17

Because of their wicked covetousness I was angry; I struck them; I hid and was angry, but they kept turning back to their own ways.

Jeremiah 22:17

But your eyes and heart are only on your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.

Jeremiah 5:8

They were well-fed lusty stallions, each neighing for his neighbor’s wife.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

Habakkuk 2:9

“Alas for you who get evil gain for your house, setting your nest on high to be safe from the reach of harm!”

Matthew 20:15

Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Luke 12:15

And he said to them, “Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.”

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Acts 20:33

I coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothing.

Acts 5:4

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God!”

Romans 13:9

The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery; you shall not murder; you shall not steal; you shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Romans 7:7

What then are we to say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet, if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.”

1 Corinthians 6:10

thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:3

But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 5:5

Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Deuteronomy 5:21

“ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor’s wife. “ ‘Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

Deuteronomy 7:25

The images of their gods you shall burn with fire. Do not covet the silver or the gold that is on them and take it for yourself, because you could be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things.

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he himself has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”

Joshua 7:21

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. They now lie hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”

1 Samuel 12:3

Here I am; testify against me before the Lord and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me, and I will restore it to you.”

1 Samuel 15:19

Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”