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It Does Hurt Others
“What I do in my private life is my business.” “I’m not hurting anyone.” “Even if I hurt myself, I’m not bothering anyone else.” If you stand for morality, you have no doubt heard phrases like these. In fact, if you are honest, you have probably said (or thought) them yourself, because we all struggle with sin, but we try to keep it private. When we open our minds, though, we realize that our sin–even private sin–does hurt other people. It may be in ways that are subtle, but sin does not just hurt or harm the one committing it. Of course, the clearest example of this in Scripture is…