Cross references
Deuteronomy 5:21
You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- a Cited in Romans 7:7 and Romans 13:9
Deuteronomy 5:21 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Exodus 20:17 (41 votes) and Romans 13:9 (32 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 49 to Hebrews 13.
Which verses does Deuteronomy 5:21 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Exodus 20:1741 votes
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
- Romans 13:932 votes
The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments, are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
- 1 Kings 21:1–44 votes
Some time after these events, Naboth the Jezreelite owned a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria. So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.” …
- Luke 12:154 votes
And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Micah 2:23 votes
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- 1 Timothy 6:9–103 votes
Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
- Habakkuk 2:92 votes
Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Romans 7:7–82 votes
What then shall we say? Is the law sin? Certainly not! Indeed, I would not have been mindful of sin if not for the law. For I would not have been aware of coveting if the law had not said, “Do not covet.” But sin, seizing its opportunity through the commandment, produced in me every kind of covetous desire. For apart from the law, sin is dead.
- Hebrews 13:52 votes
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.”
Which verses point to Deuteronomy 5:21?
The 10 strongest of 15.