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These are the top (or should that be bottom) seven sins. The catholic church produced the list a long time ago. You and I may (or may not) have committed some or all of these. Before we did we would have experienced temptation. Jesus would also have experienced temptation, but would not have committed the sin.
Here are some more definition, so that we have a better understanding.

Lust (or lechery) is usually thought of as excessive thoughts or desires of a sexual nature. Giving in to lusts can lead to sexual or sociological compulsions and/or transgressions including (but not limited to) sexual addiction, fornication, adultery, bestiality, rape, perversion, and incest. Dante's criterion was "excessive love of others," which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary.
Gluttony comes from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow. It is the over-indulgence and over-consumption of anything to the point of waste. In the Christian religions, it is considered a sin because of the excessive desire for food, or its withholding from the needy.
Greed (or avarice, covetousness) is, like lust and gluttony, a sin of excess. However, greed (as seen by the church) is applied to the acquisition of wealth in particular. St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that greed was "a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things."