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Exodus 20:1-17 contains the Ten Commandments.

'Coveting a man's wife' was only part of that particular commandment at Exodus 20:17. Instructions were given NOT to covet your neighbor's... house, wife, slave, bull, donkey, or 'anything that belongs to your fellowman'.Anyone can apply this council, no matter how old we are.

Coveting means to DESIRE something that you have no right to.

Though Christians are not under the Ten Commandments(which were part of the Mosaic Law written to the nation of Israel(Exodus 20:2) and ending when Jesus died (Colossians 2:14)), the principals are still sound, and included in the Christian law of love (Matthew 22:39)(Romans 13:8-10). BECAUSE we love our 'neighbor', we will not hurt them by jealously envying something they have. We would, instead, be loving friends. (John 13:35). Infact, 'He that does not love, has not come to know God, because God is Love'. (1 John 4:8)

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