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I know that my sister is committing many sins and is getting engaged soon, but she’s hiding a lot of things including the fact that she's been in intimate relationships. Because we're close, I can't say anything but it kills me knowing. I feel like she's not thinking straight and when I advice her about how going into a marriage based on a lie is wrong and that she needs to confess, she just gets so angry and stops speaking to me. I'm not sure what to do. The most I've done is try to hint out a few things to my parents so they can keep their eyes open and be weary of with whom she is speaking, but there are limits of what I can and can't say. I understand that it's best she speaks to her father of confession, but I know very well that she wouldn't be comfortable to speak to him even if she agrees. I don't know what to do.

Since your sister is privately confiding in you, it is important to protect her communication. Even if this information about her private life is seriously troubling for you—as it should be, keep it confidential unless she is in danger. Since it is a spiritual peril that she is treading, you may discuss the situation with your confession father. Keep pressing the message of honesty with her when you can without her completely shutting you out. She obviously needs to hear this message. Above all, keep her in your prayers and the Lord will hear you when you call upon Him in faithfulness.

"Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him" (1 John 5:14-15).