{"id":38179,"date":"2013-03-30T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=38179"},"modified":"2021-09-24T21:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T02:02:52","slug":"notes-on-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/notes-on-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Quick wealth is dangerous<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Proverbs 20:11 &#8220;<em>An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 28:19-20 &#8220;<em>He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough! A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs 28:22 &#8220;<em>A man with an evil eye hastens after riches, and does not consider that poverty will come upon him.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Income is to be earned<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ephesians 4:28 &#8220;<em>Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>I Thessalonians 4:11 &#8220;<em>that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick wealth is dangerous Proverbs 20:11 &#8220;An inheritance gained hastily at the beginning will not be blessed at the end.&#8220; Proverbs 28:19-20 &#8220;He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows frivolity will have poverty enough! A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[815],"class_list":["post-38179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-gambling"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40044,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-it-a-sin-to-be-successful-in-your-work-what-constitutes-overworking\/","url_meta":{"origin":38179,"position":0},"title":"Is it a sin to be successful in your work? 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