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G2919 cannot be taught responsibly by replacing all 114 governed forms with one English sense. A person can be sued, an assembly can reach a decision, Paul can resolve on a ministry emphasis, authorities can conduct a trial, believers can evaluate a dispute, and God can judge. John 3:17-18 joins the Son's saving mission with the condemned state associated with unbelief.

John 5:22 places judgment within the Son's authority. Matthew 7:1-5 warns the person who judges while refusing self-examination. Those are related uses, but they do not carry identical actors, objects, authority, or outcomes. Faithful teaching pays attention to voice and construction as well as context. It refuses both evasions: using judge not to abolish every moral distinction, and using discernment texts to enthrone human judgment as final.

The verb's range requires humility, accountable evaluation, and careful submission to the passage.

The governed witness contains 114 verb forms across 48 parsing patterns. Active, middle or passive, finite, infinitive, imperative, participial, present, aorist, perfect, imperfect, future, and pluperfect forms occur. This morphology matters: judging, being judged, standing trial, deciding, and commanding evaluation are grammatically distinct acts. Translation ranges from judge and condemn to decide, resolve, consider, sue, and stand trial.