Rom.6:16, Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Prov.12:28, In the way of righteousness is life, And in its pathway there is no death.
Rom.6:23, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Deut.13:4, "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice; you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him.
Deut.6:5, "You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 6 "And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. 8 "You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
John 14:1, Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me [Jesus].
John 12:49, For I [Jesus] have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
John 15:10, If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.
Prov.2:1, My son, if you receive my words, And treasure my commands within you, 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, And apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding, 11 Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, 12 To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, 13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness; 14 Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; 15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths; 16 To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words, 17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God. 18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths to the dead.
John 14:6, Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
John 15:16, You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.
Eph.5:23, For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 26, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.
1 Cor.6:19, Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.
Eph.4:4, There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
Eph.4:5, one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all
1 Cor.3:16, Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
1 Pet.2:5, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
Mal.2:7, “For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, And people should seek the law from his mouth; For he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
1 Tim.4:1, Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their own conscience seared with a hot iron,
2 Pet.2:1, But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
1 John 4:1, Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Matt.24:24, For false christs [christ means anointed] and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.
Jude 1:19, It is these who cause divisions, worldly people, devoid of the Spirit.
1 John 2:20, But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you;
Exod.20:4, "You shall not make for yourself a carved image--any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth;
Hab.2:18, What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols?
Isa.44:9, Those who make an image, all of them are useless, And their precious things shall not profit; They are their own witnesses; They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
John 8:44, You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
1 John 2:21 but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.
Isaiah 44:10, Who would form a god or mold an image That profits him nothing?
Psalm 96:5, For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the LORD made the heavens.
Job 33:4, The Spirit of God has made me, And the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Psalm 33:6 By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.
John 20:22 And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.
John 6:63, "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
John 20:21, So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” 23 "If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."
Matt.12:37, For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
Luke 15:10, Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Most who visit this blog site are or were at one time, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
This belief led to baptism into the JW religion. You made public oath, a religious allegiance, dedicating yourself to cooperating with the directives given by “Jehovah’s organization” [w26, February, p.10, para.8].
When obeying the directives of Watchtower, were you obeying God? Are they God’s Spirit-directed organization” as they assert? [w23, June Study Edition, p.12, para.13]
—- further scriptures and commentary forthcoming —-
