The Ten | Part 10 | You shall not covet

 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor. Exodus 20:17 (NIV)

Covet = chamad to desire, take pleasure in:—attracted(1), covet(6), coveted(1), delight(1), desirable(2), desire(1), desired(2), desires(2), pleasing(1), precious(2), precious things(1), took great delight(1).

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? ² You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. ³ When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.  James 4:1-3 (NIV)

Stewardship grows through generosity

Contentment grows through thanksgiving

Faith grows through surrender

⁹ The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” ^y and whatever other command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ^{a 10} Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.  Romans 13:9-10 (NIV)