{"id":350641,"date":"2026-02-19T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/?p=350641"},"modified":"2026-02-20T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:30:08","slug":"to-sin-or-to-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/post\/to-sin-or-to-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"To Sin or to Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color: #f2f8fc; padding: 2em; border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin: 1em 0;\"><p>All the days of the afflicted\u00a0are\u00a0evil,<br \/>\nBut he who is of a merry heart\u00a0has\u00a0a continual feast.<br \/>\nBetter\u00a0is\u00a0a little with the fear of the\u00a0Lord,<br \/>\nThan great treasure with trouble. (Proverbs 15:15-16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe man in sin lives an oppressed life and without reason to live, marked by sorrow, pain, and suffering, while those who do God&#8217;s will live the joy of salvation.<br \/>\nTo live far from sin, out of fear of God, is better; this condition becomes man&#8217;s greatest wealth and, even more so, his tranquility.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All the days of the afflicted\u00a0are\u00a0evil, But he who is of a merry heart\u00a0has\u00a0a continual feast. Better\u00a0is\u00a0a little with the fear of the\u00a0Lord, Than great treasure with trouble. (Proverbs 15:15-16) &nbsp; The man in sin lives an oppressed life and without reason to live, marked by sorrow, pain, and suffering, while those who do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":350642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323,6248,377],"tags":[6126,6223,6224],"site":[],"class_list":["post-350641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-school-of-faith","category-ester-bezerra","category-women","tag-bible","tag-meditation","tag-the-word-of-god"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350643,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350641\/revisions\/350643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350641"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/universalchurchusa.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=350641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}