If you have ever been in the midst of a controversy, you soon begin to see who your real friends are. As the controversy heats up, your friends edge away. They stop calling. They make excuses. They don't sit with you in the workplace cafeteria. It becomes obvious they don't want whatever 'taint' from your controversy to singe them, and they stay out of the circle of scorched earth you're in.
We take a look at two types of friends Paul mentions, the kind that abandoned him and the kind that stuck with him

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https://the-end-time.org/2023/06/27/abandonment-vs-refreshment-which-are-you/