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Is the verse you shall not covet mean jealousy. I mean jealousy is something that someone wants but don't have right.

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It means to desire something so much that you want to steal it. A person might be jealouse of another person because they have the thing, but that is speaking of the person who owns it and not of the object itself.

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the way I have always looked at it was like this......    If my neighbor gets a new lawn mower and I think it is great and would like to have one like it really bad, it's not coveting......    it's when I want his mower that it turns into coveting.

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Is the verse you shall not covet mean jealousy. I mean jealousy is something that someone wants but don't have right.

 

I agree that it is the desire to have what someone else has, but I see it more like envy than jealousy.

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Whats the difference between jealousy and envy.

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Ironically, just a few minutes before I saw this theme post, I saw a small video clip entitled: "number 10; Do no covet" from Prager university on Facebook,  that I had never heard about before, Prager university is a virtual teaching project that only outputs five minute videos. From what I saw of the clip, it gives some intelligent information about the one thought prohibition in contrast to the first nine commandments which were behavior prohibitions.  ...... I think that one blue ribbon example of coveting that resulted in disastrous consequences is the story of Gary Gilmore, who was executed by firing squad in Utah several decades ago. The storyline as described in the book: "The executioner's Song" Indicated that Gilmore saw a pickup truck at a dealership that he wanted and was obsessed with, but he could not come up the down payment, he decided to commit robberies to obtain the money; in the course of committing the robberies, he committed murder.

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the way I have always looked at it was like this......    If my neighbor gets a new lawn mower and I think it is great and would like to have one like it really bad, it's not coveting......    it's when I want his mower that it turns into coveting.

That seems about right to me

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I was wondering about this myself. For example, if I see a beautiful home and really like it and hope to own it someday, is this coveting or a sin in any way?

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