“Vice lives and thrives best by concealment.” -Virgil

How very true; when we do wrong, it is as darkness, and we wish to keep such deeds in darkness. Many of our sins are done in secret, and if we had no means of concealing them, they would cease to thrive.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. -John 3:19-21

God requires of us to bring our vices and wrongdoings into the light. Sin is self-destructive, and the longer we hide and conceal it, the more likely we are to suffer graver and graver consequences.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. -Proverbs 28:13

• Men Hate Those to Whom They Have to Lie
• Fear and a Guilty Conscience
• The Stubbornness of Error
• Sunlight for the Soul
• Leaving Faults Behind

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