{"id":631,"date":"2008-06-09T06:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=631"},"modified":"2008-06-09T06:46:13","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:46:13","slug":"defraud-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/defraud-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Defraud Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well”<\/font><\/b> (Proverbs 5:15).<\/p>\n

Guys, if the girl isn’t your wife, keep your hands off.<\/p>\n

Gals, if the fellow isn’t your husband, keep your hands off. (And his as well!)<\/p>\n

Kissing, holding, handling, hugging, fondling, cuddling — even that, if between non-spouses, violates the above verse. In my opinion.<\/p>\n

Even if I indulge in it “only” in my mind, I have sinned. Jesus said so.<\/p>\n

As the world’s standards of morality continue their downward trend, I purpose to be faithful to my God and to my wife.<\/p>\n

As the church herself becomes increasingly lax in far too many instances, I purpose to keep up my guard.<\/p>\n

It’s tough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well” (Proverbs 5:15). Guys, if the girl isn’t your wife, keep your hands off. Gals, if the fellow isn’t your husband, keep your hands off. (And his as well!) Kissing, holding, handling, hugging, fondling, cuddling — even that, if between non-spouses, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity-101","category-lessons-for-living","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}