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You know when we lived on the rich fat lands of the Mississippi and Missouri valleys, our fields and improvements were coveted. Our enemies gathered around us and attempted to drive us away, and ultimately succeeded, and they robbed us of our inheritances, which were worth millions of dollars. When we located here we located on a spot that was not likely to be desirable to anybody else, any further than our labor made it so.", "matched_pattern": "coveted"}, {"year": 1971, "speaker": "Mark E. Petersen", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "Honesty, a Principle of Salvation", "talk_id": "cojc:1971-10-honesty-a-principle-of-salvation", "text": "When the Almighty spoke from Sinai commanding that we should not steal, in the same breath he said: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour,” and he also declared that we must covet nothing that is our neighbor’s. (See [Ex. 20:16–17](https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/general-conference/1971/10/honesty-a-principle-of-salvation?lang=eng/study/scriptures/ot/ex/20?lang=eng&id=p16-p17#p16).)", "matched_pattern": "covet"}, {"year": 1974, "speaker": "Howard W. Hunter", "role": "apostle", "source": "cojc", "title": "His Final Hours", "talk_id": "cojc:1974-04-his-final-hours", "text": "Again Jesus had turned a question full of venom and envy and technical deceit into an answer of love, compassion, and lofty vision.", "matched_pattern": "envy"}, {"year": 1978, "speaker": "Spencer W. Kimball", "role": "prophet", "source": "cojc", "title": "“Hold Fast to the Iron Rod”", "talk_id": "cojc:1978-10-hold-fast-to-the-iron-rod", "text": "Bearing false witness and coveting the belongings of others are further evidences of selfishness. “Love thy neighbour as thyself,” Jesus taught. 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