Deuteronomy 5:21
You must not desire to have anyone else's wife. You must not desire to have their house or field, or their male slave or female slave, or their ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to them.”
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20You must not give false evidence against others.
Cross References
2 Samuel 11:2Late one afternoon, David got up from taking a nap and was walking on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
Job 31:9If a woman has seduced me, or if I have looked for an opportunity to sleep with my neighbor's wife,
Micah 2:2They seize any fields they want. They take any houses they want. They cheat people of their houses, and steal their inheritance.
Luke 12:15“Watch out, and beware of all greedy thoughts and actions, for a person's life isn't summed up by all the things they own.”
Romans 13:9“You must not commit adultery, you must not kill, you must not steal, you must not jealously want things for yourself” —these and the other commandments are summed up in the statement, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
Hebrews 13:5Don't love money; be content with what you have. God himself has said, “I'll never let you down; I'll never give up on you.”
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →