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"You shall not covet your neighbor`s house. You shall not covet your neighbor`s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor`s."
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A Command for the Heart
Commentators unanimously agree that this commandment is unique because it addresses the heart. While other laws forbid sinful actions, this one “strikes at the root” by forbidding sinful desires. It shows that God’s law is spiritual, concerned not just with outward behavior but with the inner thoughts and motivations that are the source of all sin.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the Ten Commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; and Deuter…
19th Century
Anglican
Thou shalt not covet. — This command seems to have been added in order to teach the general principle that the Law of God…
Baptist
It was the tenth commandment that convicted the apostle Paul, for he says, I had not known sin except the law had said "Thou shalt not covet."<…
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16th Century
Protestant
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. There is no question that this Commandment also extends to those that have preceded it. God had …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You shall not covet your neighbour's house This is the tenth and last commandment, and is an explanation of several …
The laws of the Second Table, that is, the last six of the Ten Commandments, state our duty to ourselves and to one another, and explain the great …
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