Because it is humility, not pride, that leads to purity. Once we are humble people, we won’t need external regulations to force us to sell “pure honey.” We will be people of honor who are safe with one another; we will put away “anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk.”14 Once we are humble people, we will no longer use our bodies to compete with each other because we will have put on a “new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.”15 Once we are humble people, men will no longer feel the need to prove their dominance and women will no longer feel
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