1 Corinthians 5:10

or with the covetous The word used here in the original is derived from two Greek words signifying to have more. Hence it signifies (1) one who has more than enough, (2) who desires more than enough of whatever kind, (3) one greedy after money. In some passages it, and the substantive and verb of similar derivation, are used of sensual sin, as in Ephesians 5:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:6. In this verse, as well as in Ephesians 5:5, and Colossians 3:5, these words are connected with idolatry; either (1) because the love of riches is a kind of idolatry (1 Timothy 6:17) or (2) because the idolatrous rites of heathenism were so frequently stained with sensual indulgence. The verb formed from it generally signifies to overreach, take advantage of. Thus in 2 Corinthians 2:11 it is translated -get an advantage of," in 1 Corinthians 7:2 -defraud," and in 1 Corinthians 12:17-18 -make a gain of." Dean Stanley illustrates its use by the word covetas used in the Tenth Commandment; first in the ordinary sense of covetousness, -thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house," and next in the sense of sensual desire, -thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife." We may also compare the words greedand greedy, which coming from the Anglo-Saxon grædanto cry, and kindred with the Gothic greitan, the Lowland Scotch greet, and the Italian gridare, words of similar signification, have diverged from one another in sense, and are used, the former exclusively of gain, the latter of the indulgence of appetite.