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September 24, 2026

Daily Devotional

The Seven Deadly Sins: Capital Vices That Lead the Heart Away from God!

The seven deadly sins—pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth—are not listed together as a numbered catalog in Scripture. They arose in the early church as a pastoral tool. In the fourth century the desert monk Evagrius Ponticus named eight “evil thoughts” that war against holiness. Pope Gregory the Great later reduced them to seven “capital vices” because each one begets many other sins. Thomas Aquinas later taught that they are disordered loves that turn the heart from God toward self.

Scripture never calls them “deadly” in a special class above other sins; all sin separates us from a holy God. Yet each of these seven is clearly condemned.

> Pride exalts self above God and neighbor. “Pride goes before destruction and haughtiness before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18, TLB). It was Lucifer’s first rebellion and remains the root of every other vice.

> Greed loves money and possessions more than the Giver. Jesus warned, “Beware! Don’t always be wishing for what you don’t have. For real life and real living are not related to how rich we are” (Luke 12:15, TLB).

> Lust treats people as objects of appetite rather than image-bearers of God; Jesus said even the look of the heart is already adultery (Matthew 5:28).

> Envy resents another’s blessing and “rots the bones” (Proverbs 14:30).

> Gluttony makes the belly a god (Philippians 3:19) and wastes the body God bought with a price.

> Wrath nurses anger until it becomes hatred and murder in the heart (Matthew 5:21-22).

> Sloth is not mere rest; it is spiritual apathy that refuses the good God calls us to do.

These vices promise satisfaction and deliver slavery.

The gospel answers every one of them.

At the cross Jesus, who knew no pride, became poor that we might become rich; He remained pure while bearing our lust; He absorbed wrath so we could receive mercy; He finished the work we were too slothful to begin.

The Holy Spirit now produces the opposite virtues—humility, generosity, chastity, kindness, temperance, patience, and diligence—as fruit of a new heart.

The list is useful only if it drives us to Christ, not to self-improvement.

Confess the particular vice that still rules you.

Receive the blood that cleanses.

Then walk by the Spirit, putting off the old man and putting on the new.

If you are not happy with what you have, will you be happy with what you get!

The seven deadly sins are real, but they are not final.

Jesus is!

Remember: GOD LOVES YOU!

…but He HATES SIN!

God is 100% Holy!

He looked down upon this Cruel, Evil, Sinful World 2,026 years ago and sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ down to this earth as a little Baby, born of the Virgin Mary in the little city of Bethlehem as prophesied by Isaiah 700 years earlier.

Jesus lived a Perfectly Sinless Life for 33 years upon this earth before He allowed Roman Soldiers to nail Him to a Rugged Cross of His Own Volition as payment in full for ALL of the sins of the ENTIRE human race IF we would:

> Believe Upon Him;

> Accept Him as our personal Savior;

> Repent of our sins and

> Follow Him.

After He died upon that Cross He was buried in a borrowed tomb and on the third day His Father God Breathed Life back into Him on the Day we now Celebrate as Easter, He arose from the dead and over the next 50 days made at least 10 appearances to at least 500 people before arising upon a cloud in front of His remaining 11 Disciples instructing them (and us) to go into the outer reaches of the earth telling the World about His Death, Burial and Resurrection, teaching them all of His Commandments and Baptizing them in the Names of: The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit and as He rose on up into Heaven as our: High Priest, Advocate, Lord and Savior He told them that He would be with them until the end of the Age!

And that’s where we are today:

> God Loves You;

> God hates sin;

> You’re a Sinner;

> God has made a way to get into Heaven

With Him by just Believing upon His Son

Jesus, repenting of your sins and by

Following Him.

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Let us Praise Him Daily!

A good way to learn to Praise God is to memorize the first 6 Verses of Psalms 148:

1 Praise the Lord, O heavens! Praise Him from the skies!

²Praise Him, all His angels, all the armies of heaven.

³Praise Him, sun and moon and all you twinkling stars.

⁴Praise Him, skies above. Praise Him, vapors high above the clouds.

⁵Let everything He has made give praise to Him. For He issued His command, and they came into being;

^{6 H}e established them forever and forever. His orders will never be revoked.

PLEASE read the last 6 Chapters of Psalms: 145-150 so that you will learn how to Praise God like David did!

If you don’t want to get your Bible, Here they all are, just click on each Chapter and I will read them to you:

PSALMS 145 PSALMS 146 PSALMS 147 PSALMS148 PSALMS 149 PSALMS 150

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JESUS IS:

THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH,

THE LEADER,

THE ORIGINATOR,

THE LORD & MASTER,

THE SUPREME LEADER,

OUR HOPE,

1ST BORN FROM THE DEAD WITH AN IMMORTAL BODY TO NEVER DIE AGAIN,

THE 1ST FRUITS OF THE RESURRECTION,

HE IS OUR FESTIVAL OF HOPE,

OUR PARDON,

GIVEN 1ST PLACE IN EVERYTHING,

HAS BEEN EXALTED AS SUPREME OVER EVERYTHING,

IS ENOUGH,

THE FULLNESS OF GOD DWELLS IN US THROUGH JESUS,

JESUS HAS BROUGHT US INTO HARMONY WITH GOD,

HE HAS BROKERED A PEACE TREATY BETWEEN GOD & MAN,

YOU WERE BORN ON THE WRONG SIDE, BUT BY ACCEPTING JESUS

YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE NOW,

YOU ARE BEYOND REPROACH,

JESUS WAS THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD A SIN PROBLEM,

NEVER GET OVER WHAT JESUS HAS DONE FOR YOU!

NOW:

THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH:

TO TEACH US TO LEAD OTHERS TO CHRIST!

AMEN!

(You might want to copy those down and memorize them!)

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DAILY BIBLE READING:

>1. Chapter for the DAY in Proverbs;

>2. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the Old Testament AND

>3. PLUS: 1 NEW Chapter from the New Testament Daily:

Chapter 24 in Proverbs for today: (SEPTEMBER 24 (MT) (ESV)

24 Be not envious of evil men,
    nor desire to be with them,
²for their hearts devise violence,
    and their lips talk of trouble.

³By wisdom a house is built,
    and by understanding it is established;
⁴by knowledge the rooms are filled
    with all precious and pleasant riches.
⁵A wise man is full of strength,
    and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
⁶for by wise guidance you can wage your war,
    and in abundance of counselors there is victory.
⁷Wisdom is too high for a fool;
    in the gate he does not open his mouth.

⁸Whoever plans to do evil
    will be called a schemer.
⁹The devising^[a] of folly is sin,
    and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind.

¹⁰If you faint in the day of adversity,
    your strength is small.
¹¹Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
    hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
¹²If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
    does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
    and will he not repay man according to his work?

¹³My son, eat honey, for it is good,
    and the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste.
¹⁴Know that wisdom is such to your soul;
    if you find it, there will be a future,
    and your hope will not be cut off.

¹⁵Lie not in wait as a wicked man against the dwelling of the righteous;
    do no violence to his home;
¹⁶for the righteous falls seven times and rises again,
    but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.

¹⁷Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
    and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles,
¹⁸lest the Lord see it and be displeased,
    and turn away his anger from him.

¹⁹Fret not yourself because of evildoers,
    and be not envious of the wicked,
²⁰for the evil man has no future;
    the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

²¹My son, fear the Lord and the king,
    and do not join with those who do otherwise,
²²for disaster will arise suddenly from them,
    and who knows the ruin that will come from them both?

More Sayings of the Wise

²³These also are sayings of the wise.

Partiality in judging is not good.
²⁴Whoever says to the wicked, “You are in the right,”
    will be cursed by peoples, abhorred by nations,
²⁵but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight,
    and a good blessing will come upon them.
²⁶Whoever gives an honest answer
    kisses the lips.

²⁷Prepare your work outside;
    get everything ready for yourself in the field,
    and after that build your house.

²⁸Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause,
    and do not deceive with your lips.
²⁹Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me;
    I will pay the man back for what he has done.”

³⁰I passed by the field of a sluggard,
    by the vineyard of a man lacking sense,
³¹and behold, it was all overgrown with thorns;
    the ground was covered with nettles,
    and its stone wall was broken down.
³²Then I saw and considered it;
    I looked and received instruction.
³³A little sleep, a little slumber,
    a little folding of the hands to rest,
³⁴and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
    and want like an armed man.

Footnotes

Proverbs 24:9 Or scheming

CHAPTER 47 JEREMIAH for today: (SEPTEMBER 24 (LN) (ESV)

47 The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh struck down Gaza.

²“Thus says the Lord:
Behold, waters are rising out of the north,
    and shall become an overflowing torrent;
they shall overflow the land and all that fills it,
    the city and those who dwell in it.
Men shall cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.
³At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels,
the fathers look not back to their children,
    so feeble are their hands,
⁴because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
⁵Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    how long will you gash yourselves?
⁶Ah, sword of the Lord!
    How long till you are quiet?
Put yourself into your scabbard;
    rest and be still!
⁷How can it^[a] be quiet
    when the Lord has given it a charge?
Against Ashkelon and against the seashore
    he has appointed it.”

Footnotes

Jeremiah 47:7 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew you

”

Revelation 02

for today: (SEPTEMBER 24 (NN) ESV)

2 “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands.

²“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. ³I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. ⁴But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. ⁵Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ⁶Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. ⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will grant to eat of the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.’

To the Church in Smyrna

⁸“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write: ‘The words of the first and the last, who died and came to life.

⁹“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander^[a] of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. ¹⁰Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life. ¹¹He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will not be hurt by the second death.’

To the Church in Pergamum

¹²“And to the angel of the church in Pergamum write: ‘The words of him who has the sharp two-edged sword.

¹³“‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith^[b] even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells. ¹⁴But I have a few things against you: you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put a stumbling block before the sons of Israel, so that they might eat food sacrificed to idols and practice sexual immorality. ¹⁵So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. ¹⁶Therefore repent. If not, I will come to you soon and war against them with the sword of my mouth. ¹⁷He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.’

To the Church in Thyatira

¹⁸“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: ‘The words of the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and whose feet are like burnished bronze.

¹⁹“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first. ²⁰But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols. ²¹I gave her time to repent, but she refuses to repent of her sexual immorality. ²²Behold, I will throw her onto a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her I will throw into great tribulation, unless they repent of her works, ²³and I will strike her children dead. And all the churches will know that I am he who searches mind and heart, and I will give to each of you according to your works. ²⁴But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call the deep things of Satan, to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden. ²⁵Only hold fast what you have until I come. ²⁶The one who conquers and who keeps my works until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations, ²⁷and he will rule^[c] them with a rod of iron, as when earthen pots are broken in pieces, even as I myself have received authority from my Father. ²⁸And I will give him the morning star. ²⁹He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Footnotes

Revelation 2:9 Greek blasphemy
Revelation 2:13 Or your faith in me
Revelation 2:27 Greek shepherd

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Please Remember:

“CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS

AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD!”

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The Steps to Salvation:

> Repent: Repentance means that you are turning away from sin to turn to Christ. It does NOT mean that you will be perfect.

> Believe/Receive: Salvation is through Faith in Jesus and by the Grace of God. Believing means putting your Faith in Jesus and receiving forgiveness of sin.

>Walk in the Newness of Life: Jesus died so that we might live. We walk in the Newness of Life being Born Again by His Blood.

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GOD THE FATHER IS THE SOVEREIGN KING
AND CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSE AND BEYOND!

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