Scriptures that fit the GB to a tee

by isaacaustin 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    Matt 15:8-9

    This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching [for] doctrines the commandments of men.

    Matt 23:2-6

    Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay [them] on men's shoulders; but they [themselves] will not move them with one of their fingers. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

    Matt 23:13

    But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in [yourselves], neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

    Matt 23:23

    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

    Matt 23:25-28

    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. [Thou] blind Pharisee, cleanse first that [which is] within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men's] bones, and of all uncleanness.

    Matt 23:29 says well what they do to those who expose their errors- Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

    Matt 23:33

    [Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

    Any others?

  • lavendar
    lavendar

    Matt 7:23

  • Marjorie
    Marjorie

    Not exactly descriptive, but pertinent:

    Luke 21:8

    And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am [Christ]; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them.

    Deut 18:20

    But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

    Deut 18:22

    When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that [is] the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, [but] the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.

    Rev 22:18

    For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    marjorie...VERY applicable verses. I can think of no more a direct fulfillment of those verses than the GB.

  • isaacaustin
    isaacaustin

    marjorie...VERY applicable verses. I can think of no more a direct fulfillment of those verses than the GB.

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Isaiah 28:9 -10 "Is that so? And who do you think you are to teach us?
    Who are you to lord it over us? We're not babies in diapers
    to be talked down to by such as you— 'Da, da, da, da,
    blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a good little girl,
    that's a good little boy.'"

    The above gem is from The Message Bible.

    Tee hee hee.

    Sylvia

  • Marjorie
    Marjorie

    Ah, Issac, whenever I read the scriptures, there are times when I get the feeling that the Bible is talking about the WTS in particular. I'm sure that you feel the same...

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    And of course, I just looooove this one.

    Also from The Message Bible:

    Acts 13:41 Watch out, cynics;
    Look hard—watch your world fall to pieces.
    I'm doing something right before your eyes
    That you won't believe, though it's staring you in the face."

    Sylvia

  • Marjorie
    Marjorie

    Sylvia: LOL!

  • snowbird
    snowbird

    Yep, LOL is right.

    I always laugh and think of the GB when I read those.

    Sylvia

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