A: The tenth commandment forbiddeth all discontentment with our own estate,1 envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour,2 and all inordinate motions and affections to anything that is his.3
Esther 5:13.
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kings' gate.
1 Corinthians 10:10.
Neither murmer ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
James 3:14,16.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth . . . For where enying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil
work.
Romans 13:9.
For this, thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false
witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love they
neighbour as thyself.
Deuteronomy 5:21.
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his
field, or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Colossians 3:5.
Mortify therefore your
members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
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