Texts of The Watchtower in several languages
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8-14/3/2010 (w 15/1/2010)
- 1 -(1 Peter 2:9) But YOU are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for special possession, that YOU should declare abroad the excellencies” of the one that called YOU out of darkness into his wonderful light.
(Revelation 7:9,14,15) After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 14 So right away I said to him: “My lord, you are the one that knows.” And he said to me: “These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation, and they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 15 That is why they are before the throne of God; and they are rendering him sacred service day and night in his temple; and the One seated on the throne will spread his tent over them.
- 3 -(Joshua 6:25) And Ra´hab the prostitute and the household of her father and all who belonged to her, Joshua preserved alive; and she dwells in the midst of Israel down to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent out to spy on Jer´i·cho.
(Ruth 2:4-12) And, look! Bo´az came from Beth´le·hem and proceeded to say to the harvesters: “Jehovah be with YOU.” In turn they would say to him: “Jehovah bless you.” 5 Subsequently Bo´az said to the young man who was set over the harvesters: “To whom does this young woman belong?” 6 So the young man set over the harvesters answered and said: “The young woman is a Mo´ab·i·tess, who returned with Na´o·mi from the field of Mo´ab. 7 Then she said, ‘Let me glean, please, and I shall certainly gather among the cut-off ears of grain behind the harvesters.’ So she entered and kept on her feet from that time in the morning until her sitting down just now in the house a little while.” 8 Later Bo´az said to Ruth: “You have heard, have you not, my daughter? Do not go away to glean in another field, and you must also not cross over from this place, and in that way you should keep close by my young women. 9 Let your eyes be on the field that they will harvest, and you must go with them. Have I not commanded the young men not to touch you? When you are thirsty, you must also go to the vessels and drink from what the young men will draw.” 10 At that she fell upon her face and bowed down to the earth and said to him: “How is it I have found favor in your eyes so that I am taken notice of, when I am a foreigner?” 11 Then Bo´az answered and said to her: “The report was fully made to me of all that you have done to your mother-in-law after the death of your husband, and how you proceeded to leave your father and your mother and the land of your relatives and to go to a people whom you had not known formerly. 12 May Jehovah reward the way you act, and may there come to be a perfect wage for you from Jehovah the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”
(Matthew 1:5,6) Sal´mon became father to Bo´az by Ra´hab;Bo´az became father to O´bed by Ruth;O´bed became father to Jes´se; 6 Jes´se became father to David the king. David became father to Sol´o·mon by the wife of U·ri´ah;
- 4 -(Ruth 1:1-6) Now it came about in the days when the judges administered justice that a famine arose in the land, and a man proceeded to go from Beth´le·hem in Judah to reside as an alien in the fields of Mo´ab, he with his wife and his two sons. 2 And the man’s name was E·lim´e·lech, and his wife’s name Na´o·mi, and the names of his two sons were Mah´lon and Chil´i·on, Eph´rath·ites from Beth´le·hem in Judah. Eventually they came to the fields of Mo´ab and continued there. 3 In time E·lim´e·lech the husband of Na´o·mi died, so that she remained with her two sons. 4 Later the men took wives for themselves, Mo´ab·ite women. The name of the one was Or´pah, and the name of the other Ruth. And they went on dwelling there for about ten years. 5 In time the two of them, Mah´lon and Chil´i·on, also died, so that the woman remained without her two children and her husband. 6 And she proceeded to get up with her daughters-in-law and to return from the fields of Mo´ab, for she had heard in the field of Mo´ab that Jehovah had turned his attention to his people by giving them bread.
- 6 -(Exodus 3:11) However, Moses said to the [true] God: “Who am I that I should go to Phar´aoh and that I have to bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?”
(Exodus 4:1,10,13-15) However, Moses in answering said: “But suppose they do not believe me and do not listen to my voice, because they are going to say, ‘Jehovah did not appear to you.’” 10 Moses now said to Jehovah: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but I am not a fluent speaker, neither since yesterday nor since before that nor since your speaking to your servant, for I am slow of mouth and slow of tongue.” 13 But he said: “Excuse me, Jehovah, but send, please, by the hand of the one whom you are going to send.” 14 Then Jehovah’s anger grew hot against Moses and he said: “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I do know that he can really speak. And, besides, here he is on his way out to meet you. When he does see you, he will certainly rejoice in his heart. 15 And you must speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I myself shall prove to be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach YOU men what YOU are to do.
(Psalms 103:14) For he himself well knows the formation of us,Remembering that we are dust.
- 7 -(Jeremiah 1:8,19) Do not be afraid because of their faces, for ‘I am with you to deliver you,’ is the utterance of Jehovah.” 19 And they will be certain to fight against you, but they will not prevail against you, for ‘I am with you,’ is the utterance of Jehovah, ‘to deliver you.’”
(Jeremiah 15:20) “And I have made you to this people a fortified copper wall; and they will certainly fight against you, but they will not prevail over you. For I am with you, to save you and to deliver you,” is the utterance of Jehovah.
- 10 -(Psalms 91:9,14) Because you [said]: “Jehovah is my refuge,”You have made the Most High himself your dwelling; 14 Because on me he has set his affection,I shall also provide him with escape.I shall protect him because he has come to know my name.
(Hebrews 11:34-39) stayed the force of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from a weak state were made powerful, became valiant in war, routed the armies of foreigners. 35 Women received their dead by resurrection; but other [men] were tortured because they would not accept release by some ransom, in order that they might attain a better resurrection. 36 Yes, others received their trial by mockings and scourgings, indeed, more than that, by bonds and prisons. 37 They were stoned, they were tried, they were sawn asunder, they died by slaughter with the sword, they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, while they were in want, in tribulation, under ill-treatment; 38 and the world was not worthy of them. They wandered about in deserts and mountains and caves and dens of the earth. 39 And yet all these, although they had witness borne to them through their faith, did not get the [fulfillment of the] promise,
- 11 -(Psalms 15:1,2) O Jehovah, who will be a guest in your tent?Who will reside in your holy mountain? 2 He who is walking faultlessly and practicing righteousnessAnd speaking the truth in his heart.
(Psalms 121:5) Jehovah is guarding you.Jehovah is your shade on your right hand.
- 12 -(Psalms 91:5,6) You will not be afraid of anything dreadful by night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in the gloom,Nor of the destruction that despoils at midday.
(2 Corinthians 11:3) But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent seduced Eve by its cunning, YOUR minds might be corrupted away from the sincerity and the chastity that are due the Christ.
(Colossians 2:8) Look out: perhaps there may be someone who will carry YOU off as his prey through the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary things of the world and not according to Christ;
(Psalms 91:7-10) A thousand will fall at your very sideAnd ten thousand at your right hand;To you it will not come near. 8 Only with your eyes will you look onAnd see the retribution itself of the wicked ones. 9 Because you [said]: “Jehovah is my refuge,”You have made the Most High himself your dwelling; 10 No calamity will befall you,And not even a plague will draw near to your tent.
(Matthew 24:12) and because of the increasing of lawlessness the love of the greater number will cool off.
- 13 -(Revelation 14:6) And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare as glad tidings to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,
(Titus 1:9) holding firmly to the faithful word as respects his [art of] teaching, that he may be able both to exhort by the teaching that is healthful and to reprove those who contradict.
(1 Peter 5:2) Shepherd the flock of God in YOUR care, not under compulsion, but willingly; neither for love of dishonest gain, but eagerly;
(Matthew 24:45) “Who really is the faithful and discreet slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time?
- 14 -(Proverbs 13:20) He that is walking with wise persons will become wise, but he that is having dealings with the stupid ones will fare badly.
(1 Peter 4:10) In proportion as each one has received a gift, use it in ministering to one another as fine stewards of God’s undeserved kindness expressed in various ways.
- 15 -(Romans 8:38,39) For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor governments nor things now here nor things to come nor powers 39 nor height nor depth nor any other creation will be able to separate us from God’s love that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Isaiah 54:17) Any weapon whatever that will be formed against you will have no success, and any tongue at all that will rise up against you in the judgment you will condemn. This is the hereditary possession of the servants of Jehovah, and their righteousness is from me,” is the utterance of Jehovah.
- 16 -(John 14:30) I shall not speak much with YOU anymore, for the ruler of the world is coming. And he has no hold on me,
(Revelation 13:16,17) And it puts under compulsion all persons, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slaves, that they should give these a mark in their right hand or upon their forehead, 17 and that nobody might be able to buy or sell except a person having the mark, the name of the wild beast or the number of its name.
(John 8:34) Jesus answered them: “Most truly I say to YOU, Every doer of sin is a slave of sin.
(Hebrews 3:13) but keep on exhorting one another each day, as long as it may be called “Today,” for fear any one of YOU should become hardened by the deceptive power of sin.
(Romans 1:24-32) Therefore God, in keeping with the desires of their hearts, gave them up to uncleanness, that their bodies might be dishonored among them, 25 even those who exchanged the truth of God for the lie and venerated and rendered sacred service to the creation rather than the One who created, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 That is why God gave them up to disgraceful sexual appetites, for both their females changed the natural use of themselves into one contrary to nature; 27 and likewise even the males left the natural use of the female and became violently inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males, working what is obscene and receiving in themselves the full recompense, which was due for their error. 28 And just as they did not approve of holding God in accurate knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mental state, to do the things not fitting, 29 filled as they were with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, badness, being full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malicious disposition, being whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, insolent, haughty, self-assuming, inventors of injurious things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, false to agreements, having no natural affection, merciless. 32 Although these know full well the righteous decree of God, that those practicing such things are deserving of death, they not only keep on doing them but also consent with those practicing them.
- 17 -(John 3:36) He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life; he that disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains upon him.
(John 4:18) For you have had five husbands, and the [man] you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.”
- 18 -(Deuteronomy 30:19,20) I do take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against YOU today, that I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the malediction; and you must choose life in order that you may keep alive, you and your offspring, 20 by loving Jehovah your God, by listening to his voice and by sticking to him; for he is your life and the length of your days, that you may dwell upon the ground that Jehovah swore to your forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to give to them.”
- 19 -(2 Timothy 1:9) He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not by reason of our works, but by reason of his own purpose and undeserved kindness. This was given us in connection with Christ Jesus before times long lasting,
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