You shall not covet

These commandments forbid the sin of coveting. The Hebrew word means, at its most basic level, desire, to take pleasure in. Now to be sure, it is good and proper to take pleasure in those gifts God has given to us . . . but we must be careful to take pleasure only in those things which God has given us. When the line is crossed and we begin to desire and take pleasure those things that are not given to us—those things that God has given to our neighbor—then we enter into coveting.

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