The Tenth Commandment condemns coveting “your neighbor’s house; … or his manservant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his ass” (Ex 20:17). Obviously today most people covet not their neighbors’ animals, but their cars, boats, pools, etc. This means that the form of covetousness has changed but its principle is the same. If people today were no longer covetous, untrue, dishonest, or unfaithful, etc., then it would be obvious that the principles of the Decalogue which condemn these sins would be no