Of Pride it is said, “Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord.” (Prov. xvi. 5.) “God resisteth the proud.” (James iv. 6.) “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.” (Prov. viii. 13.)
Of Avarice it is said, “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God,” and S. Paul says that among these are “the covetous” who “shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (1 Cor. vi. 10.) “No covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God.” (Eph. v. 5.) David speaks of “the covetous, whom God abhorreth.” (Ps. x. 3.)
Of Luxury, there are many and strong denunciations in Scripture, it is one of those conditions which, like avarice, shuts out from the Kingdom of God. (1 Cor. vi. 10.) S. John saw the luxurious shut out from the gates of the New Jerusalem. See also Gal. v. 19.
Of Gluttony, that is of indulgence to excess in eating and drinking, the same is said. “The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these—drunkenness, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.” (Gal. v. 21.)
Of Envy it is the same, “Envyings,” are included among the works of the flesh.
So also is Anger.
Indolence is the torpor of the soul and body, which will not exert itself to do what is right, or to resist what is wrong. It is a state of indifference to the true ends for which man has been made, and in Scripture is called sleep—“Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead.”
