How do we participate in the sins of others?

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How exactly do we participate in the sins of others? If I know that someone is doing something immoral and I do not say anything, am I culpable for that sin? Recently two friends of mine moved in together ( a man and a woman) and they are unmarried and not living chastely. What is my obligation to them? I fear that if I say anything the only thing it would do would break up our already strained friendship. Is prayer enough? Also, when I was 21 I had a friend who was 18 and we used to go to the bars together because he had found an I.D. from someone who was 21. Did I participate in his sin by going with him and not hindering him? At the time I did not consider underage drinking to be immoral, because I figured if he was old enough to vote or join the military he should be old enough to have an occasional beer. Thank you for your help.
 
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How exactly do we participate in the sins of others?
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Really what this boils down to is quite simple…examples are best.

Lets say that you give someone a nude magazine - you just gave them an opportunity to not only lust, but possibly engage in self-abuse.

Lets say that you give alcholol to a friend and the friend is drunk, then you do nothing to stop the friend from driving while drunk.

Or, two kids in a store and one decides to steal and urge the other to steal.
 
I don’t believe that underage drinking is a sin in and of itself. Using the false ID would be.

As for the friends who are co-habiting, you said it was already a strained relationship. Why? Could it be strained because they know what they are doing and that they are embarassed that you also know? I think that I would have to go on record that I were against there living together, tell them the foundation of why I believe that it is wrong (because God said so) and tell them that as long as they remain in that sinful state I have to exclude myself from seeing them. Tell them that you will pray for them and do so.

God Bless!
 
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