255-Coveting Affects Your Sex
Delight Your Marriage
Belah Rose
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🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
But I think "coveting" is still very relevant to our world today.
And is still an egregious sin we need to take seriously for our benefit and God's Kingdom.
When I look at the Ten Commandments, I used to think they weren't all that related to one another... and they didn't have much to do with marriage or sex.
1- But looking at them again, there's a thread that runs through them very beautifully: contentment with God's will for you.
2- Sex is even directly indicated.
But the one about "do not covet your neighbor's wife," if taken seriously, guards against the "do not commit adultery" commandment.
Coveting is actually a very important sin for men AND women. We each need to take it very seriously.
It causes your sex life to dwindle if either partner is doing it.
Though men and women covet differently around sex, if given to that temptation, it has a huge impact on the bedroom.
God cares about our hearts. He cares about how we think and how we judge. And when we covet, we are taking our eyes off of what God wants us to focus on and consuming our attention with things that just don't matter as much and maybe they are even egregious sins.Coveting is actually a very important sin for men AND women. We each need to take it very seriously.Also, I talk about the sins of sex addiction and greed in this episode because I think they're very related as well.
Coveting and adultery are equal sins. But the former leads to the latter.
Adultery is an outward sin while coveting is a sin of the heart and it happens first.
Coveting is where we should be vigilant so the outward sin can't even come close.
When women covet the "neighbor's wife", it's still sin.Maybe we're jealous of another woman's flat stomach or some other standard of beauty we think is better than our own.
It causes us to hide, feel insecure and go away from intimacy with our spouse. Leaving our marriage more exposed to potential destruction.(Also, ladies, I still have to fight against this! That's our fight to win--the fight in our hearts and minds.)
I have actionable recommendations to help you avoid this temptation for your benefit and to serve God and His people better. I hope you'll listen in.
Wishing you a wonderful week!
Love and blessings,
Belah
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Delight Your Marriage podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | You're joining me, Bella Rose, as I dive deep into the beauty, power, and truths about intimacy. |
| 0:11.0 | Learn not only the practicals, but the heart behind what making love is all about. |
| 0:17.0 | Delight your marriage. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi there and welcome. Delight your marriage. |
| 0:24.5 | Hi there and welcome. |
| 0:26.7 | Thank you so much for joining. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm really grateful that we get to speak. |
| 0:35.3 | Now, wherever you are in the world, you may be, you know, by God's grace, I have people listening in from 155 countries all over the place. So |
| 0:38.7 | thank you so much for joining. I am hopeful that today's podcast, and in fact, every single |
| 0:44.9 | episode is something that encourages you and empowers you in not only your walk with Jesus, |
| 0:52.5 | but also in your relationship with your spouse, whether you're |
| 0:56.6 | a husband or a wife listening, it is really intended to give you what you need to go the next |
| 1:03.9 | step, to continue this journey. I really deeply believe that our relationship with our spouse is our highest priority. |
| 1:16.6 | And so aside from our relationship to Jesus, right, that's our highest human priority. |
| 1:22.6 | And so if that's out of whack, then we've got to really assess how our life is set up, because we've |
| 1:31.2 | set up our life in a priority list that's not the way God describes it. So I want to just |
| 1:41.1 | encourage you today, and we're going to be talking about something that I don't |
| 1:45.5 | hear talked a lot about, but it's funny how often I see it in the Bible. So I think it's important, |
| 1:51.9 | but I also think it's very practically important to your sex life based on the work that I do, |
| 1:57.8 | and based on, I think this is going to just really help men and women |
| 2:02.9 | this podcast. So let's go ahead and dive in. |
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