The New Life In Christ - My conscience is ruled by the Holy Spirit, and it tells me I am not lying Romans 9:2.

The Seven Deadly Sins	The Virtue it Sins Against	What it is
Pride	Humility	Seeing ourselves as we are and not comparing ourselves to others is humility. Pride and vanity are competitive. If someone else's pride really bothers you, you have a lot of pride.
Greed	Generosity	This is about more than money. Generosity means letting others get the credit or praise. It is giving without having expectations of the other person. Greed wants to get its "fair share" or a bit more.
Envy	Love	"Love is patient, love is kind…" Love actively seeks the good of others for their sake. Envy resents the good others receive or even might receive. Envy is almost indistinguishable from pride at times.
Anger	Kindness	Kindness means taking the tender approach, with patience and compassion. Anger is often our first reaction to the problems of others. Impatience with the faults of others is related to this.
Lust	Self-control	Self control prevents pleasure from killing the soul by suffocation. Lust is the self-destructive drive for pleasure out of proportion to its worth. Sex, power, or image can be used well, but they tend to go out of control.
Gluttony	Temperance	Temperance accepts the natural limits of pleasures and preserves this natural balance. This does not pertain only to food, but to entertainment and other legitimate goods, and even the company of others.
Sloth	Zeal	Zeal is the energetic response of the heart to God's commands. The other sins work together to deaden the spiritual senses so we first become slow to respond to God and then drift completely into the sleep of complacency.

So now we serve God in a new way with the Spirit, and not the old way with written rules.

But the law was the only way I could learn what sin meant. I would never have known what it means to want to take something belonging to someone else if the law had not said, “You must not want to take your neighbor’s things”. Romans 7:6-7.

But I see another law working in my body, which makes war against the law that my mind accepts.

So in my mind I am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful self I am a slave to the law of sin. Romans 7:23 & 7:25.

If people’s thinking is controlled by the sinful self, there is death. But if their thinking is controlled by the Spirit, there is life and peace.

Those people who are ruled by their sinful selves can not please God. Romans 8:6-8.

YOUR BELIEFS ABOUT THESE THINGS SHOULD BE KEPT SECRET BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. ROMANS 14:22. Amen.