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The difficult situation that may arise is where a person feels he is being put, by his association with certain people whom he knows willingly persist in a sinful state, into a position of being, as it were, an accessory to their sin. What if an Orthodox married couple have non-Orthodox friends who they know 'live in sin', or even an Orthodox unmarried couple in that state? Can the Orthodox married couple have such others stay in their home sharing a room? It may be that a person's own brother comes to stay with his lady friend to whom he is not married - can the brother be refused? There must be other examples such as the Christian bed and breakfast couple who decline to accept bookings from homosexual couples (as was discussed some time ago) . There are ways, such as consent or silence or acquiescence or facilitation, of passively participating in others' sins. Christ indeed associated with sinners but with a view to turning them from their sin.