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Or when self reigns and Christ is outside the heart.
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Ingratitude to God.
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Ingratitude to parents.
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Ingratitude to spiritual leadership.
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Ingratitude to employer.
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Ingratitude to employees.
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Love of ease.
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Love of sleep.
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Love of comfort.
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Love of clothes.
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Love of cars.
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Love of landed property – lands, houses, etc
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The desire to be praised.
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The desire to be promoted.
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The desire to be consulted.
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The desire to outclass others.
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The desire to be seen.
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The desire to be heard.
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The desire to have the final word.
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Fear of failure.
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Fear of being forgotten.
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Fear of dying without accomplishing something worthy of praise by man.
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Self-will.
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Self-justification.
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Love of gain.
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Love of vanity.
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Fear of the presence of God.
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Rebellion against political leadership.
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Rebellion against spiritual leadership.
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Rebellion against employer.
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Rebellion against husband.
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Rebellion against parents.
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Rebellion against school authorities.
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Self-sufficiency.
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The first place in the heart has been given to the family.
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The first place in the heart has been given to the profession.
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The first place in the heart has been given to the tribe.
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Bitterness.
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38 An unforgiving heart.
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A heart that remembers what should be forgotten.
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A heart that forgets what it should remember.
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Pride because of physical looks.
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Pride because of academic attainment.
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Pride because of social position.
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Pride because of the success of children.
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Pride because of financial wealth.
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Pride because of spiritual gifts.
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Pride because of talents.
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Pride because of the success of parents.
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Pride because of husband’s success.
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Pride because of husband’s position.
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Laziness.
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Self-advertisement.
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Wrath.
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An unforgiving spirit.
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A spirit of revenge.
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Severity.
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Sternness.
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Lack of tenderness.
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A critical spirit.
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Gossip.
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Murmuring against the government.
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Murmuring against all in authority.
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Love of money.
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A spirit of hoarding.
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The stealing of time from the employer.
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The stealing of paper, envelopes and all the like from the employer.
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The abusive use of the telephone because someone else is paying for it.
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The abusive use of water, electricity, etc, because someone else will pay the bill.
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Prayerlessness.
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Superficiality in prayer.
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Always sleeping during prayer.
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Fear of fasting.
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False show of spirituality.
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Impatience.
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Joylessness.
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Unkindness.
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Consistent choice of the pathway of least resistance.
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Unfaithfulness in fulfilling promises made.
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A capacity to make promises thoughtlessly.
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Lack of capacity to be true to anyone.
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Lack of capacity to believe anyone.
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Lack of power to keep the mouth shut.
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Lack of power to keep a secret.
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Lying by completing the parts of a story that are forgotten by things of personal creation.
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Lying to cover one’s failures.
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Lying to cover those that are beloved.
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Exaggerating the weaknesses and failures of some.
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Exaggerating the strengths and accomplishments of some.
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Falsehood in expressing need.
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Pretentious love.
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Pretentious care.
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Pretentious involvement.
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Fear of the future.
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Worry about the future of children.
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Unbelief.
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Love of food, more than love for God.
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Love of special types of food, more than love for God.
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Love of meat, more than love for God.
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Gluttony.
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Love of football, more than love for God.
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Love of television, more than love for God.
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An unusual love for children, more than the love for God.
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An unusual love for partner, more than love for God.
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An unusual love for parents, more than love for God.
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Stealing God’s tithe.
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Stealing God’s offering.
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Moods.
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Spite.
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Fear of man.
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Fear of being identified as a believer.
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Fear of public opinion.
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Lack of burden for the lost.
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Lack of love for the saints.
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Selfishness towards believers.
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Selfishness towards unbelievers.
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Selfishness towards the needy.
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Selfishness towards mate.
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Selfishness towards children.
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Selfishness towards parents.
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Desiring things that are not needs.
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Debts.
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Unwillingness to pay debts, i.e. having money, but not paying one’s debt.
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Self-created loneliness.
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A capacity to withdraw and be shut up in self.
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Cowardice.
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Worry.
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Restlessness.
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A wandering spirit.
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A sluggish spirit.
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An unbroken heart.
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Lack of capacity to repent.
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Lack of capacity to turn away from sin.
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Lack of hatred of sin.
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Love of the world.
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Love of the things of the world.
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An undecided spirit.
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Extravagance.
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Indiscipline with money.
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Indiscipline with time.
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Inferiority complex.
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Superiority complex.
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Cunning.
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Guile.
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Timidity.
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Instability.
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Absence of deep convictions.
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A cold heart towards God.
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A cold heart towards man.
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Exposing the faults of others.
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Hiding personal faults.
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A fastidious spirit.
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Jesting.
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The spirit of entertainment.
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Murder in thought.
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Adultery in thought.
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Fornication in thought.
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Adultery in act.
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Fornication in act.
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Discouragement.
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Masturbation.
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At home in disorder.
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Egotism.
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A weak will.
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Self-centredness.
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A stubborn will.
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A compromising spirit.
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An unusual inclination towards the opposite sex.
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The love of worldly music.
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An independent spirit.
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Hatred for people.
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A callous spirit.
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Intolerance.
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Procrastination.
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Stealing of God’s glory.
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Stealing the praise that is due to others.
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Using people to accomplish selfish interests.
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Hatred for ugly people.
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Desire for the company of the mockers of God.
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Preference for the company of inferiors.
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Possessive spirit over people.
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Possessive spirit over things.
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An unusual capacity to make plans that are known will not work.
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A spirit that is easily deceived.
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Love of the supernatural.
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A spirit that easily gives up.
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Inability to give oneself to anyone.
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Self-doubt.
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An unusual attachment to sports.
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An unusual capacity to initiate projects but never complete any.
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Teaching what is not practised by the teacher.
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Lying silence.
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A spirit of slander.
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An unusual capacity to make conclusions on little or no evidence.
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An unusual capacity to take decisions that are not the fruit of much thought.
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Telling as testimony a story that is a mixture of reality and imagination.
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A developed capacity to serve or do things just when someone is looking or supervising and to stop immediately such a person is gone.
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An unusual capacity to resist being influenced positively by others.
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Lack of an overriding purpose for living.
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A hatred for those who love the Lord exceptionally.
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A fear of setting goals.
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A fear of God’s presence that results in an incapacity to sustain a long period of intercourse with God.
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An unusual capacity to blame others.
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An unusual capacity to blame oneself.
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An unusual capacity to justify others.
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An unusual capacity to day-dream.
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A preference for “day-dreaming” rather than translating ideas into action.
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Lack of desire that Jesus should return today.
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Lack of desire that Jesus should return in one’s generation.
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Doubting God’s word.
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Doubting God’s servants.
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Worship of idols.
