Now for all of those out there who religiously ascribe to the notion, "Thou shalt not judge", can you explain to me how it's possible to follow Paul's instruction here without judging another? The problem is, once again, a lack of possessing a vocabulary that's in line with the Bible. There's a clear difference between "judgment" — claiming you know for absolutely sure someone is permanently winding up in hell, and "discernment" — knowing that according to God's Word another's behaviors and beliefs are leading them to hell.
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I don't use this as a forum for my political views and won't start now. But being in the midst of another presidential election cycle I will say that I'm deeply distressed over what I believe is great damage to the name of Christ. I expect the world to hate Christ; I expect the world to lie and misrepresent Him; I expect all manner of unseemly behavior from non-believers — I DO NOT expect it from those claiming to be His followers.
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Now we all know, of course, that people will find fault with us no matter what we do or say, no matter if we're 100% innocent of anything they purport or concoct. Paul isn't providing some kind of formula guaranteeing protection against unwarranted criticism or even outright persecution, but is speaking to the fact that true believers are held to a higher standard. The term "beyond reproach" is a standard which, according to God's judgment, no one can legitimately accuse us of living a double life, of allowing sin to live side-by-side with our Christianity.
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We are not supposed to automatically engage in each and every battle that comes along. A sound military strategist will tell you that often the best approach is to run away after assessing the probability of the outcome of a fight on difficult terrain for an objective you don't really want any way. To win the overall war, one has to pick carefully the time and place of individual battles. As Christians, we have to make a reasonable assessment as to whether the outcome will inevitably be "unprofitable and worthless". But how?

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We probably all get that Christ "gave Himself for us to redeem us"—that is, to save us from our sin, but do we fully understand and therefore live in the knowledge that this is only the beginning of the work? It begins with justification but His work morphs into sanctification—"to purify for Himself a people for His own possession". It's the lesson we should learn from the Old Testament laws of sacrifice that not only was something needed to die in my place for my sin, but its blood was used to then cleanse—to purify—to make something fit for God's own presence.

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Ever know or come across someone that seemed to be able to come up with an exception to just about anything? These people believe that if you can find even the smallest crack in something that it excuses their own behavior. It's a bizarre line of reasoning that goes something like, "Since you're wrong on that one point then everything you say is invalid whether it is ultimately right or not." As long as they can argue away any standard, they can justify never having to change their behavior and can continue to live as they want. To them, "nothing is pure".

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"Faith"…"knowledge"…"hope". What is "knowledge" doing in this list, sandwiched between two "arbitrary" qualities such as "faith" and "hope"? Doesn't "knowledge" drive away such ambiguous pursuits such as "faith" and "hope" and replace them with rational, grounded reasons for living instead of the hard-to-measure intangible qualities of "faith" and "hope"?

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