Sloth is a state of equilibrium: one does not produce much, but one does not need much either (in Dante's theology, sloth is the "failure to love God with all one's heart, all one's mind, and all one's soul" specific examples including being lazy, being scared, lack of imagination, complacency, and not doing what the person should do).It, like gluttony, is a sin of waste, for it wastes time, maybe because of pride.It makes life harder for oneself, because useful work does not get done.Delaying what God wants a person to do or not doing it at all.Sloth (also accidie, acedia) - Laziness idleness and wastefulness of time that a person has.Some examples of greed include air conditioning, mansions, luxury cars and sport utility vehicles. Dante wrote that greed is too much "love of money and power". Greed ( covetousness, avarice) - Greed is when somebody wants more things than the person needs or can use.Gluttony - Wasting of food, either through eating too much food, drink or drugs, misplaced desire for food for its taste, or not giving food to the needy ("excessive love of pleasure" was Dante's definition).(Dante's definition was "excessive love of others," and this reduced the love that a person could give God). Lust ( fornication) - Unlawful sexual desire, such as desiring sex with a person outside marriage.
Ranked in order (starting with the lightest and least evil) like in Dante's Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly sins are: Although the Bible does not list the seven deadly sins, they are in the book The Divine Comedy. There are seven sins that they call deadly. Some followers of Christianity say that there are sins that are the causes of all others.
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516): The Seven Deadly Sins.