In my quest to get closer to Heaven …
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I strive to thrive on the Ten Commandments and live by the Four Cardinal Virtues while doing my best to resist the Seven Deadly Sins. Here is a list of each of them: the Commandments, along with the Sins that impose temptation to break those Commandments, and the Virtues to keep in order to prevent myself from committing those Sins:
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| 10 Commandments = MUST Do | 7 Capital Sins = DON’T Do | 4 Cardinal Virtues = MUST Maintain |
| You shall have no other gods before me. | Greed, Pride | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not make for yourself a carved image – any likeness of anything that is in Heaven above, or that is in the Earth beneath, or that is in the water under the Earth. | Pride | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not take the name of the LORD your GOD in vain. | Anger | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| Remember the Sabbath day, to keep holy. | Gluttony, Lust, Sloth | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| Honor your father and your mother. | Anger, Pride, Sloth | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not murder. | Anger | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not commit adultery. | Envy, Greed, Lust | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not steal. | Greed | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. | Greed, Pride | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
| You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not cover your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s. | Envy, Greed, Lust | Fortitude, Justice, Prudence, Temperance |
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