Why do people use foul language?
People use foul language because they covet attention. They think foul language draws attention to themselves. Coveting triggers the behavior, and this shows that no one can break one of the Ten Commandments without coveting first. Paul uses 'Thou shalt not covet' as the primary example.
Les explains that people use foul language because they covet attention. They believe their foul language draws attention to themselves, and coveting triggers it. He ties this to the broader principle that no one can break one of the Ten Commandments unless they covet first. Paul is going to use the commandment 'Thou shalt not covet' as the primary example of the law. In verse 7, Paul says he had not known lust or desire except the law had said, 'Thou shalt not covet.' Verse 8 says sin, old Adam, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of contraptions—immoral thinking, evil thinking. Without the law, old Adam was dead, not functioning in the spirit realm because he was not paying attention to the law.