deadly sins: gluttony, anger, envy, lust, greed, pride and laziness. Everyone knows, but not all of us consider each of the seven on the list a sin. Someone is guided by their personal views, someone based on the realities of the current society. Someone does not understand, someone is cunning, someone does not believe, but the main thing is that no one notices how these seven of us are slowly making slaves of our vices and multiplying and expanding the “range” of our sins. Further details.

Deadly sins in Christian doctrine there are seven, and they are called so because, despite their seemingly harmless nature, if they are regularly practiced, they lead to much more serious sins and, consequently, to the death of an immortal soul that falls into hell. Deadly sins are not based on biblical texts and are not a direct revelation of God, they appeared in the texts of theologians later.

First, the Greek theologian monk Evagrius of Pontus compiled a list of the eight worst human passions. They were (in descending order of seriousness): pride, vanity, spiritual laziness, anger, despondency, greed, voluptuousness and gluttony. The order in this list was determined by the degree of a person's orientation towards himself, towards his ego (that is, pride is the most selfish property of a person and therefore the most harmful).

At the end of the 6th century, Pope Gregory I the Great reduced the list to seven elements, introducing the concept of vanity into pride, spiritual laziness into despondency, and also adding a new one - envy. The list was slightly rearranged, this time according to the criterion of opposing love: pride, envy, anger, despondency, greed, gluttony and voluptuousness (that is, pride is more opposed to love than others and therefore is the most harmful).

Later Christian theologians (in particular, Thomas Aquinas) objected to just such an order of mortal sins, but it was he who became the main one and is valid to this day. The only change in the list of Pope Gregory the Great was the replacement in the 17th century of the concept of despondency with laziness.

The word translated as "blessed", is synonymous with the word "happy". Why does Jesus not put a person's happiness on a par with what he has: success, security, power, etc.? He says that happiness is the result of a certain internal state, which does not depend on what is happening around, even if a person is slandered and persecuted. Happiness is a consequence of the relationship with the Creator, because it was He who gave us life and knows better than anyone what its meaning is, and hence happiness. Envy appears only when a person does not love and therefore is not happy. A void appears in the soul, which some unsuccessfully try to fill with things or thoughts about them.

A. B Old Testament
- examples of envy (Gen 37:11; Numbers 16:1-3; Ps 105:16-18)
- commandment not to envy (Proverbs 3:31; Proverbs 23:17; Proverbs 24:1)

B. In the New Testament
- examples of envy (Mt 27:18; Mark 15:10; Phil 1:15-17)
- negative consequences of envy (Mark 7:20-23; Jas 3:14-16)
- positive consequences of envy (Rom 11:13-14)
envy among other sins (Rome 1:29; Gal 5:20; 1 Peter 2:1)
- love does not envy (1 Corinthians 13:4)

ANGER

If a person sees himself in a mirror in a fit of anger, rage, he will simply be horrified and will not recognize himself, his appearance has changed so much. But anger darkens not only and not so much the face as the soul. An angry person becomes possessed by a demon of anger. Very often, anger gives rise to one of the most terrible sins - murder. Of the reasons that cause anger, I would like to note, first of all, conceit, self-esteem, inflated self-esteem - common cause resentment and anger. It's easy to be calm and condescending when everyone praises you, but just touch your finger, you can immediately see what we are worth. Hot temper, irascibility can, of course, be the result of an overly temperamental character, but still character cannot serve as an excuse for anger. An irritable, ardent person must know this trait of his and fight it, learn to restrain himself. Envy can be considered as one of the causes of anger - nothing irritates so much as the well-being of one's neighbor ...

Two wise men lived in the same skete in the Sahara desert, and one of them said to the other: “Come on, or something, we will scold you, otherwise we will soon cease to understand properly what passions torment us.” "I don't know how to start a fight", - answered the second hermit. “Let’s do this: I will put this bowl here, and you will say:“ This is mine. ” I will answer: “She belongs to me!” We'll start arguing, and then we'll fight.". And so they did. One said that the bowl was his, and the other objected. "Let's not waste time, said the first one. — Take it for yourself. You didn't think too well about the quarrel. When a person realizes that he has an immortal soul, he will not argue over things..

Dealing with anger is not easy. Pray to the Lord before you do your deeds and the mercy of the Lord will deliver you from anger.

A. Human anger

1. The anger of people like
— Cain (Gen 4:5-6)
— Jacob (Gen 30:2)
— Moses (Ex 11:8)
— Saul (1 Samuel 20:30)
— David (2 Samuel 6:8)
— Neaman (2 Kings 5:11)
— Nehemiah (Nehemiah 5:6)
- And she (Jonah 4:1,9)

2. How to control our anger
- we must refrain from anger (Ps 36:8; Eph 4:31)
- we must be slow to anger (Jas 1:19-20)
- we must control ourselves (Proverbs 16:32)
- in our anger we must not sin (Ps 4:5; Eph 4:26-27)

3. We can be cast into hellfire because of anger. (Matthew 5:21-22)

4. We must allow God to avenge sin (Ps 93:1-2; Rom 12:19; 2 Thess 1:6-8)

B. The Wrath of Jesus

- to injustice (Mark 3:5; Mark 10:14)
- on blasphemy in the Temple of God (John 2:12-17)
- at the last trial (Rev 6:16-17)

C. The Wrath of God

1. God's Wrath Is Righteous (Rom 3:5-6; Rev 16:5-6)

2. Causes of His Wrath
- idolatry (1 Samuel 14:9; 1 Samuel 14:15; 1 Samuel 14:22; 2 Chronicles 34:25)
- sin (Deut 9:7; 2 Kings 22:13; Rom 1:18)
- unbelief (Ps 77:21-22; John 3:36)
- bad attitude towards others (Ex 10:1-4; Amos 2:6-7)
- refusal to repent (Isaiah 9:13; Isaiah 9:17; Rom 2:5)

3. Expression of His anger
- temporary sentences (Numbers 11:1; Numbers 11:33; Isaiah 10:5; Cry 1:12)
- on the day of the Lord (Rom 2:5-8; Sof 1:15; Soph 1:18; Rev 11:18; Ps 109:5)

4. The Lord owns His wrath
God is slow to anger (Ex 34:6; Ps 102:8)
- God's mercy is greater than His wrath (Ps 29:6; Isaiah 54:8; Hos 8:8-11)
- God will turn away His wrath (Ps 77:38; Isaiah 48:9; Dan 9:16)
believers are delivered from the wrath of God (1 Thessalonians 1:10; Rom 5:9; 1 Thessalonians 5:9)

IDLENESS

Idleness is the avoidance of physical and spiritual work. Despondency, which is also part of this sin, is a state of objectless discontent, resentment, hopelessness and disappointment, accompanied by a general breakdown. According to John of the Ladder, one of the creators of the list of seven sins, despondency is "Deceiver of God, as if He is merciless and inhumane". The Lord endowed us with Reason, which is able to stimulate our spiritual quest. Here again it is worth quoting the words of Christ from the Sermon on the Mount: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied" ( Matthew 5:6) .

The Bible does not speak of laziness as a sin, but as an unproductive character trait. Laziness refers to the lethargy and inaction of a person. The lazy one should follow the example of the industrious ant (Proverbs 6:6-8) ; lazy is a burden to other people (Proverbs 10:26) . Making excuses, the lazy one only punishes himself, because. their arguments are stupid (Proverbs 22:13) and testify of his stupidity, causing ridicule of people (Proverbs 6:9-11; Proverbs 10:4; Proverbs 12:24; Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 14:23; Proverbs 18:9; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 20:4; Proverbs 24:30-34) . Unmerciful judgment will be subjected to those who lived only for themselves and did not realize the talent bestowed on him (Matthew 25:26 and next.).

GREED

You won't find the word "greed" in the Bible. However, this does not mean that the Bible has ignored the problem of greed. Quite the contrary, the Word of God takes a very close and careful look at this human vice. And it does this by decomposing greed into its components:

1. Love of money (there is a love of money) and covetousness (the desire for enrichment). “... for know that no fornicator, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God” ( Eph 5:5) .
Love of money, being the root of all evil (1 Tim 6:10) , is the foundation of greed. All other components of greed and all other human vices originate in the love of money. The Lord teaches us not to be covetous: “Have a non-money-loving disposition, being content with what you have. For I myself said: I will not leave you, nor forsake you. Heb 13:5) .

2. Covetousness and bribery
Covetousness is the demand and collection of interest on loans, the extortion of gifts, bribes. Bribe - reward, remuneration, payment, retribution, profit, self-interest, profit, bribe. Bribery is bribery.

If the love of money is the foundation of greed, then covetousness is right hand greed. About this vice, the Bible says that it comes from the heart of man: “Further [Jesus] said: What comes out of a man defiles a man. For from within, out of the human heart, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, malice, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness - all this evil comes from within and defiles a person ”( Mark 7:20-23) .

The Bible calls covetous and bribe-takers ungodly: "The wicked one takes a gift from his bosom to pervert the ways of justice" ( Ecclesiastes 7:7). “By oppressing others, the wise become foolish, and gifts spoil the heart” ( Proverbs 17:23) .

The Word of God warns us that the covetous will not inherit the Kingdom of God: “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor malakia, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor predators - will not inherit the Kingdom of God ”( 1 Corinthians 6:9-10) .

“He who walks in righteousness and speaks the truth; who despises covetousness from oppression, keeps his hands from taking bribes, stops his ears so as not to hear of bloodshed, and closes his eyes so as not to see evil; he will dwell on high; his refuge is impregnable rocks; bread will be given to him; his water will not run out" ( Isaiah 33:15-16) .

3. Greed:
Greed is the thirst for profit. The nature of a greedy person is well described in the book of the prophet Amos. “Hear this, you who are hungry to devour the poor and destroy the poor, you who say: when will the new moon pass so that we can sell grain, and the Sabbath to open the granaries, reduce the measure, increase the price of the shekel and deceive with false weights to buy the poor with silver and the poor for a pair of shoes, and sell the cuttings from bread ”( Amos 8:4-6). “These are the ways of everyone who hungers for the good of others: it takes the life of the one who has taken it” ( Proverbs 1:19) .

Ex 20:17) . In other words, this commandment addresses a person with a call: "Don't be greedy!"

4. Stinginess:
“At the same time, I will say: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly; but whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. Each give according to the disposition of the heart, not with grief and not with compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver" 2 Corinthians 9:6-7) . Is stinginess different from greed? These words are almost synonymous, but there are still some differences between them. Avarice, first of all, is aimed at preserving what is available, while greed and greed are focused on new acquisitions.

5. Greed
“For the wicked boasts in the lust of his soul; the greedy man indulges himself" ( Ps 9:24). "The greedy one will ruin his house, but the one who hates gifts will live" ( Proverbs 15:27) .

Covetousness is a sin for which the Lord punished and punishes people: “For the sin of his greed, I was angry and struck him, hid my face and was indignant; but he turned away and went in the way of his heart" ( Isaiah 57:17) . The Word of God warns Christians “So that you do nothing with your brother unlawfully and greedily: because the Lord is the avenger for all this, as before we told you and testified” ( 1 Thessalonians 4:6) .

The absence of greed is an obligatory feature of true servants of God: “But the bishop must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, chaste, decent, honest, hospitable, instructive, not a drunkard, not a brawler, not quarrelsome, not greedy, but quiet, peace-loving, not avaricious…” ( 1 Tim 3:2-3); “Deacons must also be honest, not bilingual, not addicted to wine, not greedy…” ( 1 Tim 3:8) .

6. Envy:
“An envious person hurries to wealth, and does not think that poverty will befall him” ( Proverbs 28:22). “Do not eat food from an envious person and do not be tempted by his delicious dishes; for whatever thoughts are in his soul, so is he; “Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. You will vomit the piece that you ate, and you will waste your kind words in vain ”( Proverbs 23:6-8) .

The Tenth Commandment forbids us to desire the good of others: “Do not covet your neighbor's house; Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Ex 20:17) . However, it is known that such desires most often arise in people because of envy.

7. Selfishness:
We already had a fairly deep conversation about egoism. We will not return to it, we only recall that constituent parts selfishness are the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. We have called this the triune nature of egoism: “For everything that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but of this world” ( 1 John 2:16) .

Greed is integral part selfishness, for the lust of the eyes is everything that the insatiable eyes of man desire. It is against the lust of the eyes that the tenth commandment warns us: “Do not covet your neighbor's house; Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's. Ex 20:17) . So, selfishness and greed - two boots - a pair.

8. Gluttony:
The Word of God warns that the eyes of man are insatiable: “Hell and Abaddon are insatiable; so insatiable are human eyes" ( Proverbs 27:20). “Insatiability has two daughters: “come on, come on!” ( Proverbs 30:15) “He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves wealth will not benefit from it. And this is vanity!” ( Ecclesiastes 5:9) “And I turned and saw still vanity under the sun; the person is alone, and there is no other; he has neither son nor brother; and all his labors have no end, and his eye is not saturated with wealth. “For whom, then, do I labor and deprive my soul of good?” And this is vanity and a bad deed!” ( Ecclesiastes 4:7-8) .

The main reason for greed is spiritual emptiness: spiritual hunger and thirst with which a person is born into the world. Spiritual emptiness was formed in the soul of a person as a result of spiritual death, which became a consequence of his fall into sin. God created man perfect. When a person lived with God, he was not greedy, but without God, greed became a trait of a person's character. Whatever he does, he is unable to fill this spiritual void. “All the labors of a man are for his mouth, but his soul is not satisfied” ( Ecclesiastes 6:7) .

A greedy person, not understanding the reason for his dissatisfaction, tries to drown it out material goods and riches. He, the poor fellow, does not understand that spiritual poverty cannot be filled with any material goods, just as spiritual thirst cannot be quenched with a bucket of water. All that such a person needs is to turn to the Lord, who, being the only source of living water, is able to fill the spiritual void in the soul.

Today the Lord speaks to each of us through the prophet Isaiah: “Thirsty! go all to the waters; even you, who have no silver, go and buy and eat; go buy wine and milk without silver and without price. Why should you weigh out silver for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy you? Listen carefully to Me and eat good, and let your soul enjoy fatness. Incline your ear and come to Me: listen, and your soul will live, and I will give you an everlasting covenant, unchanging mercies promised to David" ( Isaiah 55:1-3) .

Only the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is able to satisfy the spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst of everyone who comes to Him: “Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst" John 6:35) .

Of course, it is impossible to get rid of greed in one day, especially if you have been in the slavery of this vice for a long time. But it's definitely worth a try. (Deut 24:19-22; Mt 26:41; 1 Tim 6:11; 2 Corinthians 9:6-7; Col 3:2; Rom 12:2; 1 Tim 6:6-11; 3 John 1:11; Heb 13:5-6)

The next time you have a desire to profit from someone or there is a reluctance to share with someone, remember the words of Christ: "It is more blessed to give than to receive" Acts 20:35)

A. Covetousness

- in the Old Testament (Ex 20:17; Deut 5:21; Tue 7:25)
- in the New Testament (Rom 7:7-11; Eph 5:3; Col 3:5)

B. Greed Leads to Other Sins (1 Tim 6:10; 1 John 2:15-16)

- deceit (Jacob) (Gen 27:18-26)
adultery (David) (2 Kings 11:1-5)
disobedience to God (Achan) (Joshua 7:20-21)
- hypocritical worship (Saul) (1 Samuel 15:9-23)
- murder (Ahav) (1 Samuel 21:1-14)
- theft (Gehazi) (2 Kings 5:20-24)
- troubles in the family (Proverbs 15:27)
- lies (Ananias and Sapphira) (Acts 5:1-10)

C. Being satisfied with what you have is a remedy for greed.

- commanded (Luke 3:14; 1 Tim 6:8; Heb 13:5)
- Paul's experience (Php 4:11-12)

GLUTTONY

Gluttony is a sin against the second commandment (Ex 20:4) and there is one kind of idolatry. Since gluttons place sensual pleasure above all else, then, according to the apostle, their god is the womb, or, in other words, the womb is their idol: “Their end is destruction, their god is the womb, and their glory is in shame, they think about earthly things” ( Phil 3:19) .

Sweets can become an idol, an object of desire and constant dreams of a person. This is undoubtedly gluttony, but already in my thoughts. This is also something to watch out for. “Watch and pray so that you do not fall into temptation: the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” ( Mt 26:41) .

Gluttony literally means immoderation and greed in food, bringing a person to a bestial state. The point here is not only in food, but also in the unrestrained desire to consume more than is required. However, the fight against the vice of gluttony involves not so much a strong-willed suppression of the urge to eat, but a reflection on its true place in life. Food is certainly important for existence, but it should not become the meaning of life, thereby replacing worries about the soul with caring for the body. Let us remember the words of Christ: “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your soul what you will eat or drink, nor about your body what you will wear. Is not the soul greater than food, and the body than clothing? Mt 6:25) . This is very important to understand, because V contemporary culture gluttony is defined more as a medical ailment than as a moral concept.

voluptuousness

This sin is characterized not only by extramarital sexual intercourse, but also by the very craving for carnal pleasures. Let's look at the words of Jesus Christ: “You have heard what the ancients said: do not commit adultery. But I tell you that everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. Matthew 5:27-28) . A person whom the Lord endowed with Will and Reason must be different from animals that blindly follow their instincts. Lust should also include various types of sexual perversions (bestiality, necrophilia, homosexuality, etc.), which inherently contradict human nature. (Ex 22:19; 1 Tim 1:10; Lev 18:23-24; Lev 20:15-16; Deut 27:21; Gen 19:1-13; Lev 18:22; Rom 1:24-27; 1 Corinthians 6:11; 2 Corinthians 5:17)

A list of sins is contrasted with a list of virtues. Pride - humility; greed - generosity; envy - love; anger - kindness; voluptuousness - self-control; gluttony - moderation and abstinence, and laziness - diligence. Thomas Aquinas singled out Faith, Hope and Love among the virtues.

The importance of confession in the temple. List of sins and preparation for confession.

Human life is not only everyday affairs, family and material goals. It is also a way of realizing oneself, one's connection with God.

In every religious tradition you will find the instructions of the Lord regulating the relationship between all beings on the planet and in the universe.

So it turns out that we are drowning in:

• routine
• emotions
• race for survival and a better life in terms of material comfort
• pleasures and desires to have at least something in this life

We forget that we rent from God everything that surrounds us and that comes by fate. Only our landlord unconditionally and infinitely loves us, is merciful and supportive of any of our tricks, like a loving father to the pranks of his children.

We can give him the greatest satisfaction if we turn to face him, remember our connection, and regularly sincerely pray and come to confession.

We will talk about the latter point in more detail in this article.

How to prepare for confession for the first time?

Confession is the relief of the soul through a sincere humble utterance in words of one's bad deeds that contradict the principles of life indicated in the Holy Scriptures.

If you have never been to confession, and at this moment you decide to fill this gap and sincerely repent before God about your sins, use some tips:

• find a temple/church where you feel peaceful and relaxed inside
• find out the mode of its work - when services, confessions and communions are held
• choose a day when the flow of people is the least, or talk to the priest and ask him to set a day and hour for you to confess. If you do not have enough spirit and strength to immediately repent of what you have done, ask the priest for help. He will set a time for spiritual conversation with you and prepare you for confession.
• take a notebook and a pen, write down everything you are ready to repent of
• write only about the most serious things. For example, that you broke the fast or knitted in big celebration you can not remember, because similar actions tend to be repeated
• speak simply and clearly, not trying to clothe your deeds in church words
• if you are very far from understanding the types of sins, read the Bible, the 10 commandments. Here are simply and succinctly presented those types of actions that are considered sinful and contradict the plan of God regarding the life of living beings with each other.
• buy books in the church shop that list the main sins. However, use this advice only as a last resort. Because there is nothing more important than your sincerity during confession, and the Lord always dwells in the heart of every person and knows much more about you than you say to the priest in confession
• before coming to church, you must be wearing pectoral cross and clothes accepted for wearing by a Christian / Christian

Preparing for Confession: List

Before coming to confession, it is appropriate to set aside time for preparation. You go deep into yourself, remembering what you said, did and thought about other people or God.

It will be a good practice to write down everything that you are ready to sincerely repent of in confession, namely:

• the gravest mortal sins are apostasy in one's religious tradition, murder and adultery, or illicit sex
• serious destructive acts - theft, deceit, intense anger and hatred towards other people and God
• actions, words and thoughts directed against your neighbor, that is, any person you meet by fate
• words, thoughts, actions directed against God and holy personalities
• remember only your deeds without judging other people and evaluating their lives

If you have been to confession for a very long time or have never been to confession and during this time the gravest sins have accumulated, before coming to the temple for repentance, fast, read penitential prayers, and perform penitims. Find out more from your confessor about what actions you should take and for how long.

What to say in confession?

Before coming to the temple, think, realize and accept your imperfection in the form of actions, thoughts and words directed against or to the detriment of other people and beings.

During confession, you feel humility and responsibility for not repeating sins in the future.

• Talk to the priest only about your deeds, do not evaluate other people
• Avoid long detailed stories about a specific situation
• Speak simply without excuses and explanations of the motives for your actions and words.
• Do not plunge into thoughts that your story is being evaluated by the priest. Firstly, it is a sign of pride and exaltation of oneself over others, and secondly, the priest heard many repentant speeches from other people in his practice. It is difficult to surprise him with anything, and his task is different during the hearing of the confession

What should be said to the priest in front of the icons in the temple?

• about grave mortal sins
• about strong negative emotions to the neighbors
• repent of those deeds that you unintentionally forgot and therefore did not say aloud

What sins to name at confession: a short list

Before confession, reread or remember the 10 commandments that the Lord bequeathed to us. They will become a guide, a hint and a measure of all your deeds.

A brief list of sins voiced in confession looks like this:

• Fornication is watching and listening to videos with erotica, physical infidelity for those who are married, life in a civil marriage
• Gluttony is a passion for satisfying the hunger of the body and tongue
• Love of money is a race for money, putting money on a pedestal and the first place in life, instead of family and relatives
• Anger - as a quality of character, the desire to control the lives and actions of other people
• Discouragement - any kind of laziness, especially in the performance of one's daily duties
• Sadness - prolonged blues, regrets about past days and events
• Vanity - the desire for fame, the desire to possess material goods and property
• Pride is one of the most common sins of modern man. This is the erection of oneself on a pedestal, the lack of sensitivity to the life of another person, humiliation, voluntary and involuntary, of people around, animals and other living beings

How to name sins in confession? Just a list of sins

a woman in front of the altar is preparing for confession to the priest

As described in the previous section, the main passions that plague humanity are eight. But only listing them during confession will not give any result. And the priest, as a mediator, will not understand what was the sinfulness and what you repent of, and you will not experience relief of the soul.

Therefore, remember and just talk about your specific deed, thoughts and words.

First of all, remember and pronounce sins:

• apostasy, doubting the power of God, atheism
• murders, including abortions, even forced for medical reasons
• fornication and betrayal. By the way, any religious tradition condemns civil marriage or cohabitation. Although modern man practices this form of relationship

How to call the sin of masturbation in confession?

Each sin has transcripts and names of its various forms.

This is how masturbation happens:

• natural - fornication, adultery
• unnatural - malakia, same-sex contacts, connections with animals and similar perversions

Fornication is called:

• lustful glances at other women/men
• sexual contacts of unmarried people
• various touches of an intimate nature to the body of another person

Adultery is the sins of a husband or wife with other people.

Malaki is called sexual satisfaction of oneself without the help of anyone.

To understand this issue in more detail, read the book of St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, v.1, ch. "Eight major passions with their subdivisions and branches".

Human life in the material world is associated with emotions, thoughts and deeds that in one way or another affect and violate the interests of other people. Remembering that we are all souls and after returning to spiritual world we deeply repent of our deeds during our life on earth, but we can no longer change anything, come to the temple more often and confess to the holy father. Learn to forgive others for all offenses, pray and may God bless you and your family!

Video: preparation for confession, what sins to name?

Major sins is a term used in Catholic theology to refer to seven major vices that give rise to many other sins. In the eastern Christian tradition they are called seven deadly sins(the list below). In Orthodox asceticism, they correspond to eight sinful passions. Modern Orthodox authors sometimes write about them as the eight deadly sins. The seven (or eight) deadly sins should be distinguished from a separate theological concept of mortal sin (Latin peccatum mortale, English mortal sin), which was introduced to classify sins according to severity and consequences into serious and ordinary.

Sin corrupts the life of God in man. First of all, one must beware of those sinful acts that drag a person to the following sins (list according to the Catechism Catholic Church item 1866. 2001)

1. Pride
2. avarice
3. Envy
4. Lust
5. Gluttony (gluttony)
6. Despondency

Moral virtues opposed to the seven cardinal sins

1. Humility.
2. Renunciation of earthly goods.
3. Chastity.
4. Mercy.
5. Moderation.
6. Patience.
7. Diligence.

Sins against the Holy Spirit

The constant resistance to God's grace and the frequent commission of serious sins in the future can lead to the fact that the human conscience becomes insensitive and leads to the disappearance of the sense of sin. Such acts are called deeds or sins against the Holy Spirit (Mt 12:31).

1. To sin, boldly counting on the mercy of God.
2. To despair or doubt the mercy of God.
3. Resist the learned Christian truth.
4. To envy the grace of God given to one's neighbor.
5. Postpone repentance until death.

Sins towards neighbor

Contributing in any form to the sin of other people, we ourselves, to some extent, become the perpetrators of this evil and participate in sin. To sin against one's neighbor is:

1. Persuade someone to sin.
2. Order to sin.
3. Allow sin.
4. Incite to sin.
5. Praise the sin of another.
6. Maintain indifference if someone has sinned.
7. Don't fight sin.
8. Help sin.
9. Justify someone's sin.

“Woe to that man through whom stumbling comes” (Mt 18:7).

Sins crying out for heavenly punishment

TO serious sins also include actions crying out to heavenly punishment (Genesis 4:10):

1. Conscious malicious homicide.
2. Sin of Sodom, or sodomy (homosexuality).
3. Oppression of the poor, widows and orphans.
4. Deprivation of payment for work performed.

Briefly about sin according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church(references are given to points from chapter 7)

• "God hath bound up all in disobedience, that he might have mercy on all" (Rom 11:32). n. 1870
• Sin is "a word, action, or desire contrary to the eternal law." He is an insult to God. He rebels against God in disobedience, contrary to the obedience of Christ. n. 1871
• Sin is an act contrary to reason. He hurts human nature and damages human solidarity. n. 1872
• All sins are rooted in the human heart. Their types and severity are evaluated, mainly, depending on their subject. n. 1873
• To choose freely, that is, knowing and willing it, that which seriously contradicts the divine law and the final destiny of man, is to commit a mortal sin. He destroys love in us, without which eternal bliss is impossible. Left without contrition, it entails eternal death. n. 1874
• Ordinary sin is a moral iniquity, corrected by the love that it allows us to abide in. n. 1875
• The repetition of sins, even ordinary ones, gives rise to vices, among which we distinguish the main (radical) sins. p.1876

Test of conscience:

SINS AGAINST GOD

Do I believe that God is present in everything that happens in my life?
Do I believe that God loves and forgives me?
Have I turned to horoscopes, divination, do I wear amulets, talismans, do I not believe in omens?
Do I forget about prayer? Am I reading it mechanically? Do I pray morning and evening?
Do I always thank and praise God, or do I only turn to Him when I need something?
Do I doubt the existence of God?
Have I denied God? Did I blame him for the trouble that happened to me?
Have I spoken the name of God in vain? Am I making enough attempts to get to know God better?
Do I try to know God in my Sunday school classes?
How often do I read the Holy Scriptures and other books about God?
Have I taken the sacrament in a state of grave sin? Am I preparing to receive the Body of Christ and thank Him for this gift?
Am I ashamed of my faith in Christ?
Is my life a witness of God to others? Am I talking to other people about God, am I defending my faith?
Is Sunday a special day for me? Do I miss Sunday and holiday masses, am I late for them? Do I participate in the Sacraments with faith?

SINS AGAINST THE CHURCH

Do I pray for the Church, or do I think that there is only me and God?
Am I criticizing the Church? Do I reject the teachings of the Church?
Do I forget that if I live in sin, then the community becomes weaker because of it?
Do I not behave during the performance of the Sacraments as an observer or spectator?
Am I interested in what is happening in the local Church (parish community, diocese, country)?
Do I pray for the unity of the entire Church, do I treat Christians of other confessions with respect?
Doesn't it happen that I am with the community only during prayer, and when I leave the Church, I become a "normal" person - and others do not concern me?
Do I forget about God during the holidays?
Do I always fast? (this is an expression of our participation in the sufferings of Christ) Do I know how to refuse pleasures?

SINS AGAINST NEIGHBORS

Do you want to be the center of attention all the time? Am I jealous of my friends? Do I recognize their freedom?
Do I give my friends to God, do I "let" Him into my relationships with my acquaintances? Do I always notice other people?
Do I thank God for my brothers and sisters, do I help them?
Am I praying enough for others?
Do I thank for the good, do I forgive the evil?
How do I feel about the crippled, the sick, the poor?
Am I blaming others for my problems?
Do I devote enough time to those who need me, do I refuse to help?
Do I speak ill of my neighbors?
Do I not envy others, do I wish that they lose what they have?
Is there hatred in my heart for others? Do I wish harm on anyone?
Do I want to take revenge on others?
Do I give out other people's secrets, do I use the information entrusted to me against others?
Do I love my parents and try to strengthen my relationship with them? Do I listen to them?
Did I take other people's things without asking, did I steal money from my parents or someone else?
Do I faithfully perform the work entrusted to me?
Didn't he senselessly destroy nature? Didn't you litter?
Do I love my country?
Do I follow the rules of the road? Am I endangering someone's health?
Did he push others to evil?
Did he seduce others with his word, behavior, appearance?

SINS AGAINST YOURSELF

Do I treat God with indifference and frivolity? (This is a sin against God, but also against myself, because by doing so I cut myself off from the source of Life and become spiritually dead.)
Am I locked in my own dreams? Am I living for today, not in the past or in the future?
Do I ask what God thinks about my decisions?
Am I accepting myself? Am I comparing myself to others? Do I rebel against God because He made me this way?
Do I accept my weaknesses and give them to the Lord so He can heal them?
Am I avoiding the truth about myself? Do I accept comments addressed to me and change my behavior?
Am I doing what I promised?
Am I making good use of my time? Am I wasting my time?
Friends, circle of friends that I have chosen - do they help me to strive for good?
Do I know how to say "no" when they push me to evil?
Doesn't it happen that I tend to see only the bad in myself; Do I pray that the Holy Spirit will reveal to me what gifts I have and help me develop them?
Do I share with others the talents that the Lord has given me? Do I serve other people?
How do I prepare for my future profession?
Am I closing in on myself, ceasing to rejoice at what I received from God?
Man is soul and body; do I care enough about the development of my body, about its physical health ( warm clothes rest, breaking bad habits)
Am I chaste to different areas of my life? (do I make an effort to prepare my heart to receive true love?)
Do I tell dirty jokes, read obscene magazines? Can I refuse films and magazines that push me to impure thoughts? Do I evoke such thoughts in others with my manner of dressing or my behavior?

Sins in Christianity

(According to Christian doctrine)

There are a number of actions that are referred to as - sin and unworthy of a true Christian. The classification of acts on this basis is based on biblical texts, especially on the ten commandments of the Law of God and the gospel commandments.

Below we provide a list of acts that are considered sins, regardless of denomination.

According to the Christian understanding of the Bible, a person who commits an arbitrary sin (that is, realizing that it is a sin and resisting God) can become possessed.

There are seven deadly sins:

(this term does not mean physical death but spiritual death)

1. Pride(immeasurable pride, veneration of oneself perfect and sinless, pride to self-adoration, that is, ready to ascend to heaven and become like the Almighty.

2. Envy(vanity, jealousy), leading to every possible evil deed to the neighbor.

3. Anger(revenge) implacable and daring for terrible destruction, following the example of Herod, who in his anger beat the Bethlehem babies. Hot temper, acceptance of angry thoughts: dreaming of anger and revenge, indignation of the heart with rage, obscuration of the mind by it: obscene cry, argument, swearing, cruel and caustic words. Remembrance, hatred, enmity, revenge, slander, condemnation, indignation and resentment of one's neighbor.

4. Despondency(laziness in deeds, idleness, despair, carelessness). Sloth for everyone good deed especially for prayer. Too much restful sleep. Depression, despair (which often leads a person to suicide), lack of fear of God, complete carelessness about the soul, neglect of repentance until last days life.

5. Greed(greed, avarice, covetousness). The love of money, connected for the most part with unrighteous acquisitions, does not give a person even a minute to think about the spiritual.

6. Gluttony(gluttony, gluttony) who does not know any fasts, combined with a passionate attachment to various amusements, following the example of the gospel rich man who had fun "light all day"(Luke 16:19).

Drunkenness, drug use.

7. Voluptuousness(fornication - sexual life before marriage, adultery - adultery. Dissolute life. Failure to keep the senses, especially the sense of touch, which is an insolence that destroys all virtues. Cursing and reading voluptuous books.)

Voluptuous thoughts, indecent conversations, even a single glance directed with lust at a woman, are reckoned with fornication. The Savior says this about it: “You have heard what the ancients said: do not commit adultery, but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”(Matthew 5:27-28).

If he who looks at a woman with lust sins, then the woman is not innocent of the same sin, if she dresses up and adorns herself with the desire to be looked at, seduced by her, "for woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes."

Sins against the Lord God

1. Pride

2. Failure to fulfill the holy will of God;

3. Violation of the commandments: ten commandments of the Law of God, gospel commandments, church commandments;

4. Unbelief and lack of faith;

5. Lack of hope in the mercy of the Lord, despair;

6. Excessive hope in the mercy of God;

7. Hypocritical worship of God, without the love and fear of God;

8. Lack of gratitude to the Lord for all His blessings - and even for sent down sorrows and illnesses;

9. Appeal to psychics, astrologers, fortune-tellers, soothsayers;

10. Occupation of "black" and "white" magic, witchcraft, divination, spiritualism; superstition, belief in dreams, signs, wearing talismans, reading horoscopes even out of curiosity;

11. Blasphemy and grumbling against the Lord in the soul and in words;

12. Failure to fulfill vows given to God;

13. Calling on the name of God in vain, unnecessarily, swearing by the name of the Lord;

14. Blasphemous attitude towards the Holy Scriptures;

15. Shame and fear to profess faith;

16. Not reading the Holy Scriptures;

17. Going to church without diligence, laziness in prayer, absent-minded and cold prayer, absent-minded listening to reading and singing; being late for the service and leaving the service prematurely;

18. Ignorance of the feasts of God;

19. Reflections on suicide, attempts to commit suicide;

20. Sexual immorality such as adultery, fornication, sodomy, sadomasochism, etc.

Sins against neighbor

1. Lack of love for neighbors;

2. Lack of love for enemies, hatred for them, wishing them evil;

3. Inability to forgive, retribution with evil for evil;

4. Lack of respect for elders and bosses, for parents, chagrin and resentment of parents;

5. Failure to fulfill the promise, non-payment of debts, explicit or secret appropriation of someone else's;

6. Beating, attempt on someone else's life;

7. Killing babies in the womb (abortions), advice to have abortions for others;

8. Robbery, extortion;

9. Bribery;

10. Refusal to stand up for the weak and innocent, refusal to help those in trouble;

11. Laziness and negligence in work, disrespect for other people's work, irresponsibility;

12. Poor parenting is outside the Christian faith;

13. Cursing children;

14. Lack of mercy, stinginess;

15. Unwillingness to visit the sick;

16. Non-prayer for mentors, relatives, enemies;

17. Cruelty, cruelty to animals, birds;

18. Destruction of trees needlessly;

19. Controversy, non-compliance with neighbors, disputes;

20. Slander, condemnation, slander;

21 Gossip, retelling other people's sins, eavesdropping on other people's conversations;

22. Insult, enmity with neighbors, scandals, hysteria, curses, impudence, impudent and free behavior towards one's neighbor, mockery;

23. Hypocrisy;

24. Anger;

25. Suspicion of neighbors in unseemly deeds;

26. Deception;

27. Perjury;

28. Seductive behavior, desire to seduce;

29. Jealousy;

30. Telling indecent jokes, corrupting your neighbors (adults and minors) with your actions;

31. Friendship out of self-interest and treason.

Sins against oneself

1. Vanity, honoring oneself as the best, pride, lack of humility and obedience, arrogance, arrogance, spiritual selfishness, suspicion;

2. Lies, envy;

3. Idle talk, laughter;

4. Foul language;

5. Irritation, indignation, vindictiveness, resentment, chagrin;

6. Despondency, melancholy, sadness;

7. Doing good deeds for show;

8. Laziness, spending time in idleness, sleeping a lot;

9. Overeating, gluttony;

10. Love for the earthly and material more than for the heavenly, spiritual;

11. Addiction to money, things, luxury, pleasures;

12. Excessive attention to the flesh;

13. Striving for earthly honors and glory;

14. Excessive attachment to everything earthly, all sorts of things and worldly goods;

15. Drug use, drunkenness;

16. Playing cards, gambling;

17. Pimping, prostitution;

18. Performing obscene songs, dances;

19. Watching pornographic films, reading pornographic books, magazines;

20. Acceptance of fornication thoughts, delight and slowness in impure thoughts;

21. Desecration in a dream, fornication (sex outside of marriage);

22. Adultery (treason in marriage);

23. The admission of liberties to the crown and perversion in married life;

24. Masturbation (defilement of oneself with prodigal touches), immodest view of wives and young men;

25. Sodomy;

26. Bestiality;

27. Belittling one's sins, blaming others, not condemning oneself.

Sins crying out to heaven:

1. In general, intentional homicide (including abortion), and in particular patricide (fratricide and regicide).

2. Sodomy sin.

3. Vain oppression of a poor, defenseless person, a defenseless widow and young orphans.

4. Withholding from a wretched worker his well-deserved wages.

5. Taking away from a person in his extreme position the last piece of bread or the last mite, which he obtained with sweat and blood, as well as the forcible or secret appropriation of alms, food, warmth or clothing from those imprisoned in prison, which are determined by him, and in general their oppression .

6. Grief and resentment to parents to their impudent beatings.

Sins of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit:

1. Excessive hope in God or continuation of a difficult sinful life in one hope for God's mercy.

2. Despair or the opposite of excessive hope in God, a feeling in relation to the mercy of God, which denies paternal goodness in God and leads to thoughts of suicide.

3. Stubborn unbelief, not convinced by any evidence of the truth, even by obvious miracles, rejecting the most known truth.

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Books

• The Seven Deadly Sins, Pavic Milorad. Compiled from several short stories, the book "The Seven Deadly Sins" Milorad Pavic (1929-2009) considered an indivisible novel. As if in magic mirror with a hole, Dante's "Hell" is reflected here, ...
• The Seven Deadly Sins, Pavic Milorad. Milorad Pavić (1929-2009), composed of several short stories, considered the book The Seven Deadly Sins to be an indivisible novel. As if in a magic mirror with a hole, reflected here ...