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19 Bible Verses About the 7 Deadly Sins

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  • The seven deadly sins are not a list found in the Bible; the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1866) calls them the capital sins, distinguished “following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great,” because “they engender other sins, other vices.”
  • Proverbs 6:16-19 lists seven things the Lord hates; haughty eyes matches pride on the later list, and two of its items concern false speech.
  • Galatians 5:19-21 names sexual immorality, fits of anger, envy and drunkenness among the works of the flesh and ends “and things like these.”
  • James 4:6 and 1 Peter 5:5 quote the same line against pride: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
  • Hebrews 6:12 applies sluggishness to faith and hope, using the Greek word nothros that Hebrews 5:11 uses for “dull of hearing.”

The Bible has no list called the seven deadly sins, but it speaks to each of the seven. Proverbs 16:18 warns against pride, Proverbs 14:30 against envy and Ephesians 4:26-27 against lasting anger; Proverbs 6:6-8 answers sloth, Luke 12:15 greed, Proverbs 23:20-21 gluttony and Matthew 5:28 lust. The Catechism of the Catholic Church calls them the capital sins, distinguished “following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great,” and names them as pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and “sloth…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Catechism of the Catholic Church, paragraph 1866: the capital sins “which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great.” vatican.va

Strong’s Greek 3576, νωθρός (nothros): sluggish, lazy, dull; used in Hebrews 5:11 and 6:12. biblehub.com/greek/3576

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