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17 “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.”(A)

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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.”(A)

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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.”(A)

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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.”(A)

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

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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.(A)

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The Law and Sin

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.”(A)

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Renounce Pagan Ways

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

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

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

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

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

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

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