Exodus 20:17
Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.
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16Do not give false witness against your neighbour.
Cross References
Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
Genesis 34:23Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.
1 Samuel 15:19Why then did you not do the orders of the Lord, but by violently taking their goods did evil in the eyes of the Lord?
Job 31:1I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
Psalms 10:3For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
Proverbs 4:23And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.
Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:13-18
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 13 Thou shalt not kill. 14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. We have here the laws of the second table, as they are commonly… Read the whole commentary →