how to deal with sin in their midst, as in 1 Corinthians 5. How foolish it would be to argue that Paul saw the sins of these believers and was grieved over this and addressed it, but God didn’t see their sins because He had already forgiven them and saw the Corinthian church members only as perfectly righteous. Where is this taught in the New Testament? More importantly, there were consequences to these sins, as Paul explained to the believers in Corinth, who were guilty of partaking of the Lord’s