Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Deadly Sins – Gluttony
Matthew 25:44-46 (NRSV) 44 Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Seven Deadly Sins – Envy
Luke 15:25-30 (NRsV) 25 “Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing. 26 He called one of the slaves and asked what was going on. 27 He replied, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has got him back safe and sound.’ 28 Then he became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and began to plead with him. 29 But he answered his father, ‘Listen!…
Seven Deadly Sins – Wrath
Matthew 5:38-39 (NRSV) Concerning Retaliation 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also;
Seven Deadly Sins – Lust
John 3:6 (NRSV) 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit. James 1:14-15 (NRSV) 14 But one is tempted by one’s own desire, being lured and enticed by it; 15 then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death. 1 John 2:16 (NRSV) 16 for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the…