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  2. Book of Signs - Wikipedia

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    The seven signs are: [2] [3] Changing water into wine at Cana in John 2:1–11 – "the first of the signs" Healing the royal official's son in Capernaum in John 4:46–54; Healing the paralytic at Bethesda in John 5:1–15; Feeding the 5000 in John 6:5–14; Jesus walking on water in John 6:16–24; Healing the man blind from birth in John 9:1–7

  3. Seven virtues - Wikipedia

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    The seven capital virtues or seven lively virtues (also known as the contrary or remedial virtues) [8] are those thought to stand in opposition to the seven capital vices (or deadly sins). Prudentius , writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues.

  4. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    The seven deadly sins (also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins) function as a grouping classification of major vices within the teachings of Christianity. [1] According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins in Roman Catholic Church are pride , greed , wrath , envy , lust , gluttony , and sloth .

  5. Seven gifts of the Holy Spirit - Wikipedia

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    Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Folio from Walters manuscript W.171 (15th century) The seven gifts are found in the Book of Isaiah [4] 11:1–2, a passage which refers to the characteristics of a Messianic figure empowered by the "Spirit of the Lord". [5] The Greek and Hebrew versions of the Bible differ slightly in how the gifts are enumerated.

  6. Seven Factors of Awakening - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, the Seven Factors of Awakening (Pali: satta bojjha ṅ gā or satta sambojjha ṅ gā; Skt.: sapta bodhyanga) are: Mindfulness (sati, Sanskrit smṛti). To maintain awareness of reality, in particular the teachings . Investigation of the nature of reality (dhamma vicaya, Skt. dharmapravicaya).

  7. Christian perfection - Wikipedia

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    The mediaeval scala naturae as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: [1] Ramon Llull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Within many denominations of Christianity, Christian perfection is the theological concept of the process or the event of achieving spiritual maturity or perfection.

  8. Cardinal virtues - Wikipedia

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    In the High Middle Ages, some authors opposed the seven virtues (cardinal plus theological) to the seven deadly sins. However, “treatises exclusively concentrating on both septenaries are actually quite rare.” and “examples of late medieval catalogues of virtues and vices which extend or upset the double heptad can be easily multiplied ...

  9. Theological virtues - Wikipedia

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    The distinction lies both in their source and end. The moral virtue of temperance recognizes food as a good that sustains life, but guards against the sin of gluttony. The infused virtue of temperance disposes the individual to practice fasting and abstinence. The infused moral virtues are connected to the theological virtue of Charity. [16] [14]