What is sin? The breaking of a moral law.
What is virtue? Behavior showing high moral standards: "paragons of virtue"; and a quality considered morally good or desirable in a person.
Can you give an example of a sinful act?
Can you give an example of a virtuous act?
Are you a sinful or a virtuous person?
Seven Sins and corresponding virtues (try to elicit some from the students. Don't expect exact answers. Something close will do. Then ask students if they have committed the sin or practiced the virtue. Have they seen examples of this in their lives? Are these sins hard to resist? Are the virtues easy to perform?)
The Seven Sins
Lust: Pride of sexual ability
Gluttony: Pride in one's consumption
Sloth: Too proud to consider anything new
Envy: Craving the pride of others
Wrath: Pride in violence
Greed: Pride in possessions
Pride: Too proud to consider others greater
The Seven Virtues
Lust (inappropriate desire)
Gluttony (over-indulgence)
Greed (avarice)
Sloth (laziness)
Wrath (anger)
Envy (jealousy)
Pride (vanity)
Do they teach you a list of dos and don'ts in school or at home?
What is your greatest virtue?
What is the greatest virtue of your best friend?
What is your most sinful behavior?
Are all sins illegal? Are all virtues lawful?
Virtue is its own reward. Agree? Disagree?
Idioms and Expressions (what do they mean?)
He greatest virtue is his modesty.
By virtue of something.
Ugly as sin.
Make a virtue of necessity.
Live in sin.
Patience is a virtue.
The wages of sin is death.
Extoll the virtue of something.
Sin against something.
Poverty is not a sin.
Hate someone or something like sin.
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