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1. No one will have this desire as all of the races still covet their own way of life as the only way and will try to enforce their ways on others
2. Nay, I had not known , but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet” (Romans
3. means to covet, acquire, accumulate on behalf of the part
4. Hani then rummages in his backpack and pulls out a pocket Bible: "Because envy can completely consume a person and cause so much damage, God lists it as a sin in the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament: '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
5. 17 You shall not covet your neighbour's house, you shall not covet your neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is your neighbour's
6. 21 Neither shall you desire your neighbour's wife, neither shall you covet your neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is your neighbour's
7. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy
8. They are extremely generous with their possessions and by the same token covet the possessions of their friends and expect the same degree of
9. I admit that I do covet it
10. 5 For instance the law says you shall not covet your neighbour's wife nor anything that belongs to your neighbour
11. They brought him gifts and tribute, and his wife began to covet their new wealth and status, and she took charge of dealing with their many visitors as his priestess
12. 2 You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not corrupt youth; you shall not commit fornication; you shall not steal; you shall not use soothsaying; you shall not practise sorcery; you shall not kill a child by abortion neither shall you kill it when born; you shall not covet the goods of your neighbour;
13. Do not practise the expenditure of the heathen for it is injurious to you who are the servants of God; but practise an expenditure of your own in which you can rejoice; and do not corrupt nor touch what is another's nor covet it for it is an evil thing to covet the goods of other men; but work your own work and you will be saved
14. 6 You shall not covet your neighbour's goods; You shall not be an extortioner; You shall not cleave with your soul to the proud but you shall have your conversation with the lowly and the just
15. As priests, we take a vow that we will not covet material wealth and share equally among all
16. We read, “Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s slave
17. read to their congregations, ‘Thou shall not covet your neighbor’s slave
18. of all; distrust profoundly all glorification of the individual, for “ambition is the first curse” and “the power which the disciple shall covet is that which
19. So he said he was not indecent to covet married women but he was misled into believing that Sneha was available after all
20. “But it’s their ambition that makes some covet riches to enrich their status,” she said
21. I covet not this land!
22. ' Have you not read the commandment: `You shall not covet
23. And creates the comfort I so covet
24. ” No one knew why a man who had always been so generous had begun to covet money with such anxiety, and not the modest amounts that would have been enough to resolve an emergency, but a fortune of such mad size that the mere mention of it left Aureliano Segundo awash in amazement
25. wife did in fact covet Joseph
26. Don't all you gang bangers covet this China white? Hey man, it's there for the taking, so go for it!" Slicky's demeanor started to wane, he studied the remaining fourteen lines Mitchell created, almost devastated by his demands
27. then covet his attainments, gently I walked a path trodden
28. I truly covet great combinations of minerals, as they are truly rare, and I acquired this one as part of a trade with Dr
29. you still covet these common stones?” the Admiral asks
30. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You shall not covet
31. This is why God is starting off the above verse by stating that you are not to covet what other people may have that you do not have
32. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor ANYTHING that is your neighbor’s
33. The second key thing to pick up from this verse is the very last part of it where it tells us that God does not want us to covet “anything” that our neighbor has that we do not have
34. He knew that once we started to covet what our neighbors and friends had that we did not have, that it would not be long before the actual love of money would then start to get a real hold on us and from there, knock us right out of divine calls and personal relationship with Him
35. One of the Ten Commandments says: don’t covet anything that is your neighbors, anything that is your neighbors!
36. One of the Ten Commandments says: “don’t covet anything that is your neighbors” - anything that is your neighbors!
37. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, servant, handmaid, and
38. covet the property that belongs to others
39. should not covet these fruits and neither should he grow disillusioned
40. tion prescribed by the three Ved and covet joy are condemned to re-
41. liberated from all sin, the impious who only covet gratification of physic-
42. And if American corporations felt they needed their country’s government to help set up and support dictatorships in other countries in order to keep making money for their investors, it wasn’t their supporting terrorists that caused those countless thousands of innocent folks to be tortured and die, was it? It was just “business” wasn’t it? Just like it was only “national/global security concerns” that cause your elected government leaders to vote for guns and planes and nuclear weapons to be given to Israel and other “friends” around the world, so they could commit their own acts of terror against any whose gods aren’t acceptable or whose children would want to live on land they covet for their own
43. We covet experiences that trigger strong emotions because they comformicate a powerful, overwhelming, sense of being alive – that beautiful and terrifying awakening that is the mystery of becoming, which is hinted at in every change, in every newness
44. by sending sharp-eyed Hermes, not to kill him, not to covet the woman:
45. She had the feeling that if anyone else was to covet her, his life would be worthless, and he would be dispensed with immediately
46. You do not have to covet the property of others, or to look at it with wishful
47. Covet: To long after; actively try to gain; related to lust and idolatry
48. By faith, we will not covet our neighbor’s house, our neighbor’s wife, his manservant or
49. Why is the meaning of the first human city called ‘Ur’, or ‘our’? Why was the first modern city with writing, called Earth? Why were its walls a perfect circle? Why did the word ‘our’, or ‘all ours’ originate from ‘Ur’…? Because they were covetous of each other’s wealth? Because they wanted to rape and covet the entire Earth? Is the goal of the people who wanted this, still being followed? By the same idiotic, identical, staged re-enactment of Empires and Emperors, and wars? Is this the actual secret goal of civilization? To carry out this first city’s stated goal? Ur
50. ”490 When we are seeking to be closer to God we must covet His wisdom and the fruit of His Spirit
1. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have
2. glory at the most coveted table in the lunchroom
3. You got that much coveted job
4. You may even be promoted to a coveted position
5. However, when people fail to secure the coveted high ranking posts, they end up feeling inferior and depressed
6. Dictators over in those countries were forced to give up their coveted positions, by the masses who demanded a new way of governance based on equality and integrity
7. Give yourself that coveted EDGE that differentiates you from all the other guys, but also firmly places you in her sexual partner dating pool even when she's never dated outside of her race!
8. of the church… 20:17 … I have coveted no one’s silver or gold or clothes
9. Both men coveted the concept of Union and wanted
10. coveted, Captain Waddell decided that he could go no farther
11. Neither does it improve matters by exposing the modern viewer to imaginary, trumped-up ―reality‖ survival programs pitting women, who are just as likely to cop the coveted prize, against men in feats requiring athleticism and strength
12. of untimely losses and near misses depriving Osborne of the coveted title
13. It’s disturbing; the way military decorations are so coveted by men
14. He’d coveted that house for years
15. The elder son resents the father’s decision and becomes angry over the expected loss of his coveted position
16. Mevarn was Ilmal's son, and he was unbelievably beautiful and surely as coveted as Alaric had said
17. 1Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows
18. It boasts the highest number of restaurants in the top ten in the world, taking up two of these most coveted spots
19. death is not death; it is rather this coveted life you
20. AJ had not only arrived with his coveted insurance policy but a beautiful motor he could reregister once the Vin plates had been changed over and engine block ground down
21. manipulated by a being who coveted the power and might
22. Odyssey Resumed is a book that, like a hurricane, seems to pick up strength as it moves in search of the coveted truth
23. Though that was not usually the norm, Roger and Lucille took a two-week cruise at the beginning of December of two thousand, which offered the tourists some of those coveted
24. 16 And she coveted his beauty in her heart, and her soul was fixed on Joseph, and she enticed him day after day, and Zelicah persuaded Joseph daily, but Joseph did not lift up his eyes to see his master's wife
25. 10 And Balaam dwelt in Egypt, in honor with all the nobles of the king, and the nobles exalted him, because they all coveted to learn his wisdom
26. 56 And all the children of Moab did this thing to the children of Israel, and every man placed his wife and daughter at the door of his tent, and all the children of Israel saw the act of the children of Moab, and the children of Israel turned to the daughters of Moab and coveted them, and they went to them
27. 34 And Joshua said to Achan, Tell me my son, what have you done? and Achan said, I saw among the spoil a goodly garment of Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight; I coveted them and took them, and note they are all hidden on the ground in the midst of the tent
28. 21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and note, they are hid in the ground in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it
29. During his lifetime he certainly was no angel, he lied, committed treason, abused the temple, coveted, committed adultery, murdered, procrastinated, contended with his own rebellious family, but through it all, every time his sin was pointed out to him and with each misstep, he listened to wise counsel, accepted responsibility and learnt, continually growing in stature and power
30. 16 And she coveted his beauty in her heart and her soul was fixed on Joseph and she enticed him day after day and Zelicah persuaded Joseph daily but Joseph did not lift up his eyes to see his master's wife
31. coveted ears, tail and testicles around town on a ceremonial spear
32. 10 And Balaam dwelt in Egypt in honour with all the nobles of the king and the nobles exalted him because they all coveted to learn his wisdom
33. 56 And all the children of Moab did this thing to the children of Israel and every man placed his wife and daughter at the door of his tent and all the children of Israel saw the act of the children of Moab and the children of Israel turned to the daughters of Moab and coveted them and they went to them
34. As a reserve officer who coveted a regular commission that would assure him tenure beyond 20 years and probably a shot at full colonel, he knew doing a good job as CO would almost assure those goals
35. Myers pushed Parker up onto the bar where Lochert knotted the coveted III Corps Mike Force scarf about his neck then kissed him, French style, on both cheeks which, by now, were flaming red
36. That’s a highly coveted position
37. And the Shepherd seeing that the tower was beautifully built rejoiced exceedingly; for the tower was built in such a way that on seeing it I coveted the building of it for it was constructed as if built of one stone without a single joining
38. ASM3 Mogk, the first female swimmer in the Coast Guard, and the first woman certified from the Navy Rescue Swimmer School (Pensacola, Florida), was subsequently awarded the coveted Air Medal, and was honored in a Washington, D
39. And she'd so coveted her beauty sleep today
40. The coveted baby dolls filling the kitchen cupboards and anxiety in her eyes when I come to visit
41. Yet faeries led him to the place where the coveted blossom grew
42. supreme and the most coveted desire – Moksha (liberation)
43. wil achieve the coveted possession—success
44. Wall Street Has Coveted For Over 30 Years ……
45. We murdered the love we so coveted
46. I can and will create a coveted new fabric to clothe your soul in
47. Melton struggled academically but spoke eloquently, receiving Crozer’s coveted award for preaching
48. how dearly I coveted my wound
49. Somewhere deep within him, this was the very thing he coveted most as well, but the recent past seemed to impede on that dream, like a stone wall he had just started building completely around his heart
50. "Yeah, how can I help you?" Mitchell felt a doctor's superior presence, one he had always coveted; a person he couldn't help but yield enormous respect to
1. The missionaries and their children turned into plantation owners, coveting Hawaii's rich soil, ideal for sugarcane
2. somewhere about coveting being a sin
3. “She has proved that the clout of the rich owes itself to the coveting of the poor,” he said, caressing her head
4. that Joseph was coveting her
5. Coveting: A guy was telling another guy out in the warehouse how bad he wanted to get with a woman, he mentioned her name and what he wanted to do with her in graphic detail
6. As a result of this kind of intense coveting, they then come into direct violation of one of the 10 commandments given to us by the Lord where He tells us not to be coveting anything that our neighbor may have that we do not have
7. You are constantly coveting what your neighbor has that you do not have, and God does not want you living your life like this, as all it will end up eventually doing is making you miserable and unhappy
8. Selfishness; greed; coveting; that's what was in his heart
9. Coveting is when: I don't have something, and I want something I haven't got
10. All said and done, does it not amount to consciously coveting Sandhya’s man?’
11. ‘Tell me; how am I to tell you that I was coveting your man? I always knew he too was attracted by me, but then, love is a different thing, isn’t it? Just the same, I was living in the hope of being loved by him
12. In the performance of action without coveting the fruits thereof, the
13. He had been awarded with something that the major and experienced developers were coveting
14. He had been gawking, jealously coveting what he
15. Greedy has morphed from wanting and coveting wealth to actually amassing it
16. He missed her desperately and was coveting to meet her
17. The over-arching coveting of land: which created over-arching architectural symptoms of bird-culture called bridges
18. Coveting your neighbor’s wife
19. Coveting the riches of your neighbor
20. In all cases it was the mentality of mindless hate, greed, envy and coveting, covered up by a thin platitudes of politically correct bullshit
21. He has just come home at dawn, and gone upstairs to his chamber; locking himself in---as if anybody dreamt of coveting his company! There he has continued, praying like a Methodist: only the deity he implored is senseless dust and ashes; and God, when addressed, was curiously confounded with his own black father! After concluding the precious orisons---and they lasted generally till he grew hoarse and his voice was strangled in his throat---he would be off again; always straight down to the Grange! I wonder Edgar did not send for a constable, and give him into custody! For me, grieved as I was about Catherine, it was impossible to avoid regarding this season of deliverance from degrading oppression as a holiday
22. Suppose, for a minute, that master and I were dead, and you were by yourself in the world: how would you feel then? Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have instead of coveting more
23. You had already passed half your life in coveting that which you might have honorably acquired; and already you contemplated crime under the excuse of want, when God worked a miracle in your behalf, sending you, by my hands, a fortune—brilliant, indeed, for you, who had never possessed any
24. Gripe-man, a schoolmaster in Love-gain, which is a market town in the county of Coveting, in the north
25. Now I realize that it is possible for the rich to sin by coveting the privileges of the poor
26. He never mentioned Ashley and thought it best to let sleeping dogs lie, so she did not ask for an explanation of their her love for him, or made any coarse and ill-bred remarks about “coveting her
27. She twisted her precious rings on overknuckled fingers—twist, turn, creak—and fondled my arm (that old-person grope—cold fingers coveting your nice, soft, warm, new skin), and then Binks told me how her late husband of sixty-three years had trouble “keeping it in his pants
28. After years of coveting the “ultimate driving machine,” he finally went out and leased a brand-new Beemer with all the performance options
29. He has just come home at dawn, and gone up-stairs to his chamber; looking himself in—as if anybody dreamt of coveting his company! There he has continued, praying like a Methodist: only the deity he implored is senseless dust and ashes; and God, when addressed, was curiously confounded with his own black father! After concluding these precious orisons—and they lasted generally till he grew hoarse and his voice was strangled in his throat—he would be off again; always straight down to the Grange! I wonder Edgar did not send for a constable, and give him into custody! For me, grieved as I was about Catherine, it was impossible to avoid regarding this season of deliverance from degrading oppression as a holiday
30. Suppose, for a minute, that master and I were dead, and you were by yourself in the world: how would you feel, then? Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have, instead of coveting more
31. They looked a long time in Lee’s window coveting the pliers, the hack saws, the engineers’ caps and the bananas
1. 9 Woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house, so that he may
2. These are the religions of authority that we see in the world: a priest-class which claims or covets the keys to spiritual enlightenment and a body of believers congregated in a synagogue, temple, mosque, church or other organized religious group
3. “Why deny him of what is his by right and thereby induce in him a sense of deprivation? What if he covets wealth later with a vengeance? Won’t history repeat itself?”
4. When one cannot attain the object he covets he should
5. But what bowled me in the end are these from the Bhakti Yoga - Scores thought over mere rotting / Betters meditation awareness too / What helps man to find moorings / Are acts his with no axe to grind; Kind-hearted ’n considerate / Friendly natured, forgiving too / Lays no store on highs and lows / Suffers no pride ’n possessive not; Who's patient ’n cheerful / Self-willed as well persevering / Who's hearty ever at work / Makes he devout My beloved; Who’s simple, never in want / Covets he not in vantage post / Shakes him none, he keeps his nerve / It’s such who Me please the most; He’s My darling who craves not / Yet won’t shun the pleasures of life / Takes but things all as they come; Treats he equal friends ’n foes / Scorn or honour minds he not / Keeps he cool in grief and joy / Nurses for none soft centre, and above all, Pats ’n slights all in the score / Treats as equal score My man / Takes he lot of his in stride/ But won’t put the blame on Me
6. It does NOT stop a God-loving and God-fearing Serb from slaughtering a God-loving and God-fearing Muslim and turning his wife, children and parents out of their home that he covets
7. The rich create a nu outside, which becomes the nu inside that everyone now on the outside again covets, and on and on and on the circle of class turns inside out revolving round and round
8. While classically trained in all of the ways to defend herself, she took up writing in order to process the desire she now covets; to bestow a second and final death upon the Undead
9. "Gaspard, Gaspard!" murmured the woman, from her seat on the stairs, "mind what you are saying!" Caderousse made no reply to these words, though evidently irritated and annoyed by the interruption, but, addressing the abbe, said, "Can a man be faithful to another whose wife he covets and desires for himself? But Dantes was so honorable and true in his own nature, that he believed everybody's professions of friendship
10. She covets the weapon
11. And if that woman should happen to be small…Lord Stackhouse covets my Horseshoe Hills, Ser Clifford Conklyn has an old claim to Leafy Lake, those dismal Durwells live by stealing cattle…and beneath mine own roof I have the Longinch
12. to Sauron, who covets it
13. When investing in foreign companies, you really need the kind of managers that Buffett covets because corporate governance rules and management practices are generally less responsive to shareholder concerns than they are in the United States
14. Why do you think she hangs around, covets a relationship with my new wife? Because she misses the view? It’s because she cannot replace what I gave her
15. It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain, that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies; but as interfering with the money which she covets for her own commerce and navigation
