The Seven Deadly Sins

"And finally, I cannot tell you all the things whereby ye may commit sin; for there are divers ways and means, even so many that I cannot number them."

-Mosiah 4:29

  1. Pride
  2. Greed
  3. Lust
  4. Envy
  5. Gluttony
  6. Wrath
  7. Sloth (1)

Virtue and Vice

This is something which can help navigate an exegesis of the ways which sin is driven on the human race. And yet, for each of these vices there is also an opposing virtue that can help the sinner repent and stive to live a godly life.

"For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."

-1 Thessalonians 4:7

One might ask: Why are there so many vices in opposition to what is virtuous?

2 Nephi 2

11. For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so ... righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

12. Wherefore, it must needs have been created for a thing of naught; wherefore there would have been no purpose in the end of its creation. Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God and his eternal purposes, and also the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.


It must be acknowledged that the world we live is a fallen world, and because of our sinful nature we have been shut out from the presence of God. This does not mean, however, that we as mortals are left to a hopeless abandon.


John 3

16. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

2 Nephi 10

23. Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves - to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.

24. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, reconcile yourselves to the will of God, and not to the will of the devil and the flesh; and remember, after ye are reconciled unto God, that it is only in and through the grace of God that ye are saved.

This is a new series, to examine each of the Seven Deadly sins, as well as to cover the virtues which we mortal are to emulate.

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