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Non-Retaliation and Honesty: The Christian's Counter-Cultural Witness - Illustration on counter-cultural witness | IllustrateTheWord

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Non-Retaliation and Honesty: The Christian's Counter-Cultural Witness

We must not hate others because they hate us (Matthew 5:44), nor curse them for their curses (2 Samuel 16:10).

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