{"id":5994,"date":"2016-08-16T03:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/costly-adultery\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T03:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T08:48:31","slug":"costly-adultery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/costly-adultery\/","title":{"rendered":"COSTLY\n  ADULTERY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>Topics:<\/b> Adultery; Cost; Divorce; Faithfulness; Marriage; Vows<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>References:<\/b> Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:1\u201312<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Adultery need not break up marriages. It\u2019s the civilized way of dealing with the fault line of marriage\u2014desire.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>So says social commentator Minette Marrin in London\u2019s <i>Sunday Times.<\/i> In America adultery is no longer a crime in half the states, and in the others adultery is seldom, if ever, prosecuted. But sexual straying from marriage remains a costly, if not criminal, practice. According to a recent estimate, the typical adulterous husband invests almost $26,000 over a four-month period in conducting an extramarital affair. Once his wife discovers his philandering, he can count on another $5,000 in legal bills, plus an $1,800 deposit on a place to live after she ejects him from their home.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Apart from its immorality, adultery is a terrible investment. Only 5 percent of men and women who leave their marriages for someone else actually end up marrying that person.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>\u2014David Yount, \u201cThe Cost of Adultery,\u201d knoxnews.com (November 29, 2004)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topics: Adultery; Cost; Divorce; Faithfulness; Marriage; Vows References: Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:6; Mark 10:1\u201312 Adultery need not break up marriages. It\u2019s the civilized way of dealing with the fault line of marriage\u2014desire. So says social commentator Minette Marrin in London\u2019s Sunday Times. In America adultery is no longer a crime in half the states, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/costly-adultery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;COSTLY<br \/>\n  ADULTERY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}