something by which you mean no harm, and you may say that no one has a right to judge you in regard to it, but a weaker person may think of it as an evil. We are to remember that others are looking to us and taking note how we behave. We are to abstain from all that looks like evil—from the very appearance of evil, or literally, from every form of evil. Now we come to a text which has troubled many people. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and
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