Taken from the HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION (C) 1978 by the New

York Bible Society, used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

The Torrey Collection - Chapter 12

 

 

XII. THE BEST TEXTS FOR JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

1. The Bible as God's Revelation

2PE 1:20-21 Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of

Scripture came about by the prophet's own interpretation. For prophecy

never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they

were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

2TI 3:14-17 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have

become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it,

and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able

to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All

Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,

correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be

thoroughly equipped for every good work.

REV 22:18-19 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of

this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the

plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from

this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the

tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

 

2. The deity of Christ

EXO 3:14 God said to Moses, "I Am Who I Am. This is what you are to

say to the Israelites: 'I Am has sent me to you.'"

JOH 8:58 "I tell you the truth," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was

born, I am!"

JOH 1:1-2, 14 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with

God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. . .The

Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his

glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of

grace and truth.

MAT 11:27 All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one

knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the

Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

1JO 4:1-3 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the

spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets

have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit

of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in

the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus

is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have

heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

 

3. Man accountable for sins

ROM 14:11-12 It is written: "'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,

'every knee will bow before me; every tongue will confess to God.'"

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

EZE 18:20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not

share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of

the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to

him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him.

ROM 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal

life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

4. Atonement and eternal life through Christ

1CO 15:3-4 For what I received I passed on to you as of first

importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to

the Scriptures.

ISA 53:5-6, 10 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was

crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was

upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have

gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has

laid on him the iniquity of us all. . .Yet it was the LORD'S will to

crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the LORD makes his life a

guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the

will of the LORD will prosper in his hand.

ZEC 13:1 "On that day a fountain will be opened to the house of David

and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to cleanse them from sin and

impurity.

1JO 1:7-9 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have

fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies

us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves

and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and

just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all

unrighteousness.

1TI 1:15-16 Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full

acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners--of whom I

am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me,

the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his unlimited patience

as an example for those who would believe on him and receive eternal

life.

ROM 5:6, 8 You see, at just the right time, when we were still

powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. But God demonstrates his own

love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

JOH 10:27-30 My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow

me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can

snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is

greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and

the Father are one."

 

5. Salvation by faith and not works

EPH 2:8-9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and

this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that

no one can boast.

JOH 6:28-29 Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God

requires?" Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the

one he has sent."

ROM 1:17 For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a

righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is

written: "The righteous will live by faith."

ROM 4:2-3 If, in fact, Abraham was justified by works, he had

something to boast about--but not before God. What does the Scripture

say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as

righteousness."

 

6. The certainty of the future state of man

JOH 5:28-29 Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all

who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out--those who

have done good will rise to live, and those who have done evil will

rise to be condemned.

LUK 16:25-26 But Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime

you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but

now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this,

between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, so that those who want

to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to

us.'

2TH 1:7-10 This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from

heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those

who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They

will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the

presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he

comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among

all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed

our testimony to you.

MAR 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for

you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the

fire never goes out.

REV 20:14-15 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire.

The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found

written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

REV 21:6-8 He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,

the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink

without cost from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes

will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. But

the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually

immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all

liars--their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is

the second death."

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