Is it OK to covet? View all View original

This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

Verses

Covet.

1 Corinthians 12:31 View context

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 14:39 View context

Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Don't covet.

Exodus 20:17 View context

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.

Deuteronomy 5:21 View context

Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.

Romans 13:9 View context

For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Ephesians 5:3 View context

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Colossians 3:5 View context

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: