What do you think this means!?!?

Question

The Tenth Commandment:

"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife"

What does that mean in your own words.?

I need this for a paper, I have to get different people's opinions. This is the last time I'm going to ask a question like this. haha.

Thank youu.(:

Answer 1

The full verse is: Exodus 20:17 (NRSV translation):

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

According to this you've committed a sin by coveting what someone else has! It is not a sin to wish to have a house like my neighbor’s house or a car like his or even a woman just like his wife. What is forbidden, I think, is to want his car or his wife, her house or her husband -- to replace the other, not to replicate her. It is all right to want to have a big house. It is wrong to want to live in someone else’s house or life. I am commanded to be me, not you or her. I am forbidden to covet your place, to wish to be you.

Answer 2

in a single word, adultary. cheating, having thoughts you shouldnt wen you already have somebody. along those lines, good luck on your paper :)

Answer 3

It means you shouldn't look at someone's wife and think "Hey, they're good. I'd love to have a wife that good, even though she is married, I really want her"