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Abetting

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Complicity.

Abetting names the moral guilt incurred by those who encourage, approve, or assist another person's wrongdoing rather than openly committing the act themselves. Scripture treats consenting with thieves, approving the wicked, and aiding murder as participation in the sin itself.

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