Some people's sins are notorious and call for judgment, but in some cases sin only comes out afterwards.
for Demas, in his love for this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica; Crescens is off to Gaul, Titus to Dalmatia,
Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money,
You say, "If my perfidy serves to make the truthfulness of God redound to his glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?
Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: — 'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit — blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"