of various description but upon bad behavior and people who behave badly. There is the oft-quoted remark that “God hates the sin but loves the sinner.” That may be true, but the New Testament—and even more the Church Fathers—repeatedly assert that God consigns not sin but people persisting in sin to hell. The way one reads and interprets the Greek idiom in v. 1 makes all the difference between a teaching yielding good sense and one that does not. The verse should not be read, “Do not judge people,