the disease. Instead of their influencing Corinth for Christ, Corinth had influenced them, and the sins of society had cropped up in the church. John MacArthur says the Christians of Corinth could not get ‘decorinthianized’, and he proceeds to add these telling words: ‘They wanted to have the blessings of the new life but hang on to the pleasures of the old.’4 Their salt had indeed lost its savour, and their light had indeed been covered. So Paul began to write. It was not