17 “You must not desire* your fellowman’s house. You must not desire your fellowman’s wife,+ nor his slave man nor his slave girl nor his bull nor his ass nor anything that belongs to your fellowman.”*+
21 “‘Neither must you desire your fellowman’s wife.+ Neither must you selfishly crave* your fellowman’s house, his field or his slave man or his slave girl, his bull or his ass or anything that belongs to your fellowman.’+
9 “‘Woe to the one that is making evil gain for his house,+ in order to set his nest on the height, so as to be delivered from the grasp* of what is calamitous!+
15 Then he said to them: “Keep YOUR eyes open and guard against every sort of covetousness,+ because even when a person has an abundance his life does not result from the things he possesses.”+
7 What, then, shall we say? Is the Law sin?+ Never may that become so! Really I would not have come to know sin+ if it had not been for the Law; and, for example, I would not have known covetousness+ if the Law had not said: “You must* not covet.”+
14 They have eyes full of adultery*+ and unable to desist from sin,+ and they entice* unsteady souls. They have a heart trained in covetousness.+ They are accursed children.+