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 # we have rejected secret and shameful ways
 
-This means that that Paul and his coworkers refused to do "secret and shameful" things. It does not mean that they had done these things in the past.
+This means that Paul and his coworkers refuse to do "secret and shameful" things. It does not mean that they had done these things in the past.
 
 # secret and shameful ways