Which is the worst of the seven sins?

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What's The Worst Sin To God?
Lucifer, the grandest of all angels, it was said fell because he wanted to be not like God but better than God. In fact, he wanted to be above God. This assumption is born from Isaiah and his prophesying against the king of Babylon, and through many other scriptures throughout the bible.
In Fact, Lucifer was chosen by God.
Instead he decided he wanted to be more than God had given him to be, what do we call this? ENVY!
Envy is a little sin, Satan tells us; but God says, it's a biggy!
Look at the 10 commandments, they ALL grow mainly from the root or the sin of envy.
EX 20:17 "Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, male or female servant, ox or donkey, or anything else your neighbor owns."
Coveting and envy are one and the same. Look at this Commandment, you will notice where God has placed it, right up there with the badies, murder and the such.
Look at your life, where do your sins come from if not from envy.

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Envy is a pretty bad one, considering how much conflict tends to arise simply because one guy wants shit another guy has.

Originally posted by riv6672
That Spongebob occupies the Lust position makes me wonder why my fanfic never took off.

Originally posted by TheVaultDweller
Envy is a pretty bad one, considering how much conflict tends to arise simply because one guy wants shit another guy has.

That was my thinking, yeah.
Envy begets quite a few of the other sins, IMO.
You get mad (wrath) because you're envious of others and what they have.
You want (lust) what they have.
You think you deserve (pride) those things.
You're too lazy (sloth) to work hard for those things yourself.
But not too lazy to take all you can (gluttony) that someone else has acquired.

Originally posted by riv6672
That was my thinking, yeah.
Envy begets quite a few of the other sins, IMO.
You get mad (wrath) because you're envious of others and what they have.
You want (lust) what they have.
You think you deserve (pride) those things.
You're too lazy (sloth) to work hard for those things yourself.
But not too lazy to take all you can (gluttony) that someone else has acquired.
Because of the way you structured that post, I tried to read it out like it was going to rhyme. But it didn't so I read it out like a Christian rap.

Gluttony or Lust.
Obesity and STD's.

STD=Seven The Deadly?

Again, I'd say it's pride, because pride is ultimately what allows people to justify putting themselves on the pedestal where they believe they have the right to do immoral things. What's interesting is that pride ultimately stems from feelings of self-loathing and insecurity, which stem from this ubiquitous visceral fear that one is worthless.

You make a good argument.

Jealousy and envy are technically different but normally used interchangeably.

The phrase was used by, and possibly coined by, Shakespeare to denote jealousy, in The Merchant of Venice, 1596:

Portia:
How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,
Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.
I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
For fear I surfeit.

In Othello, 1604, Shakespeare also alludes to cats as green-eyed monsters in the way that they play with mice before killing them.

Iago:
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!