Puritan Catechism · 1855

Q64. What is forbidden in the tenth commandment?

The tenth commandment forbids all discontentment with our own estate, envying or grieving at the good of our neighbour, and all inordinate emotions and affections to anything that is his.
Answer · Puritan Catechism

Scripture proofs

  1. [1]
    1 Corinthians 10:10

    Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

  2. [2]
    Galatians 5:26

    Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

  3. [3]
    Colossians 3:5

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

Proof texts as given in the original; verse text from the King James Version.