But Matt 7:1.
And don’t you know, that’s for someone else. Always.
If it’s the person you’re talking to, you’re judging them.
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Matt. 7:1-5)
Someday these types of repartees(/s) will be done away with as it says in Jeriamiah 31...
” 33”But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the LORD, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34”They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the LORD, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”…”
We Christians have often made a blood sport of telling each other in a sense...”Know the Lord!” and we play the “Buddhist” game of “I know a secret” with each other. Yes there must be reproof and correction as per Timothy,but it is a fine line to know when such reproof crosses over into “judging”!
I am always astonished over accusations about the “unforgivable sin”, especially when those of a pejorative attitude use that as a cudgel on a questioning brother; when in context Jesus had been accused of doing good miracles by the power of Satan instead of by the power of the Holy Spirit. It was in that context that he issued his warnings concerning the offending of the Holy Spirit.
The Apostle Paul re-emphasizes Jeramiah 31 in Hebrews 8:9-11....repeating it verbatim thereby equating Jeremiah 31 with structural church doctrine and in how we should conduct business with each other! Hebrews 8 is a compare contrast study between the old covenant and the new covenant, between that which accuses and condemns and that which transforms us by the writing of God’s laws into our inward parts!