Exodus 20:17 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
“As the sixth, seventh, and eighth commandments forbid us to injure our neighbor in deed, the ninth forbids us to injure him in word, and the tenth, in thought.” (Albert Barnes) “Here the Mosaic law takes a step enormously in advance of any other ancient code. Most codes stopped short at the deed; a few went on to words; not one attempted to control thoughts. ‘Thou shalt not covet’ teaches men that there is One who sees the heart; to whose eyes ‘all things are naked and open;’ and who cares far less for the outward act than the inward thought or motive from which the act proceeds.” (Pulpit Commentaries) “How clearly therefore does the law teach people that they are desperately in need of One who can deliver them from this bondage of sin! But Israel has been slow to learn such a lesson.” (L.M. Grant) “This Commandment “convicted the apostle Paul, for he says, “I had not known sin [that I was a sinner] except the law had said ‘Thou shalt not covet.’ etc.” (C. H. Spurgeon)