Exodus 20:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Bible Comments

This is the tenth commandment. This points to the very root of evil in the desire of the heart, and shows how that by thinking, as well as by doing evil, we break the law of God. Paul shows the spirituality of this, and thereby, of all the other precepts of God, in his own experience. Romans 7:7.

Exodus 20:17

17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.