7 deadly sins

¹⁶Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests: ¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, ¹⁸a heart that devises the most wicked thoughts, feet running swiftly unto evil, ¹⁹a deceitful witness bringing forth lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

¹⁶For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.

²⁸But I say to you, that anyone who will have looked at a woman, so as to lust after her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁸Arrogance precedes destruction. And the spirit is exalted before a fall.

¹⁷You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; neither shall you desire his wife, nor male servant, nor female servant, nor ox, nor donkey, nor anything that is his.”

²²But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,

¹⁷For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again. ¹⁸No one takes it away from me. Instead, I lay it down of my own accord. And I have the power to lay it down. And I have the power to take it up again. This is the commandment that I have received from my Father.”

¹³But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

¹Therefore, set aside all malice and all deceitfulness, as well as falseness and envy and every detraction. ²Like newborn infants, desire the milk of reasonableness without guile, so that by this you may increase unto salvation, ³if it is true that you have tasted that the Lord is sweet. ⁴And approaching him as if he were a living stone, rejected by men, certainly, but elect and honored by God, ⁵be also yourselves like living stones, built upon him, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, so as to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ⁶Because of this, Scripture asserts: “Behold, I am setting in Zion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious. And whoever will have believed in him will not be confounded.”

¹A wise woman builds up her household. But a foolish one will pull down with her own hands what has been built up. ²One who walks on a virtuous journey, and who fears God, is despised by him who advances along a disreputable way. ³In the mouth of the foolish, there is a rod of arrogance. But the lips of the wise guard them. ⁴Where there are no oxen, the feeding trough is empty. But where there are many crops, there the strength of the ox is manifest. ⁵A faithful witness will not lie. But a deceitful witness offers a lie. ⁶A mocker seeks wisdom and does not find it. The doctrine of the prudent is accessible.

¹⁸By laziness, a framework shall be brought down, and by the weakness of hands, a house shall collapse through.

¹Now it happened in the day when Moses completed the tabernacle, and he set it up, and he anointed and sanctified it with all of its vessels, and similarly the altar and all of its vessels, ²that the leaders of Israel and the heads of the families, who were in each tribe and who were in charge of those who had been numbered, offered ³their gifts in the sight of the Lord: six covered wagons with twelve oxen. Two leaders offered one wagon, and each offered one ox, and they offered these in the sight of the tabernacle. ⁴Then the Lord said to Moses: ⁵“Receive these things from them, in order to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and you shall deliver them to the Levites, according to the order of their ministry.” ⁶And so Moses, having received the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites.

¹⁶For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life. ¹⁷For God did not send his Son into the world, in order to judge the world, but in order that the world may be saved through him.

⁸And the Lord, who is your commander, will himself be with you. He will neither renounce nor abandon you. Do not be afraid, and do not dread.”

¹⁴Does not even nature herself teach you that, indeed, if a man grows his hair long, it is a disgrace for him?

²⁹having been completely filled with all iniquity, malice, fornication, avarice, wickedness; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, spite, gossiping; ³⁰slanderous, hateful toward God, abusive, arrogant, self-exalting, devisers of evil, disobedient to parents, ³¹foolish, disorderly; without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. ³²And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done.

³But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

¹³And lead us not into temptation. But free us from evil. Amen.