"However, when He, the Spirit of Truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come." — John 16:13 NKJV
We often hear Jehovah's Witnesses say to other people and among themselves, "I'm in the truth," or "we are in the truth."
But can we, as Jehovah's Witnesses truly say, we are in the "whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you God" Truth? [Example: The newly clarified "Overlapping Generation" teaching. [See link: viewtopic.php?t=50 ]
Can we say this?
Jehovah's Witnesses, is what you currently believe and teach as "The Truth" . . . really the truth, in the face of overwhelming evidence you have examined for yourself, on the net so far? (John 8:32)
If you have doubts, please see the following information found below:
New International Version
Buy the truth and do not sell it— wisdom, instruction and insight as well.
New Living Translation
Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.
English Standard Version
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Berean Standard Bible
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
King James Bible
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
New King James Version
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.
New American Standard Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
NASB 1995
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
NASB 1977
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Legacy Standard Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and discipline and understanding.
Amplified Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell it; Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Christian Standard Bible
Buy—and do not sell—truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Buy—and do not sell—truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
American Standard Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Buy truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction or understanding.
Contemporary English Version
Invest in truth and wisdom, discipline and good sense, and don't part with them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
English Revised Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
GOD'S WORD® Translation
Buy truth (and do not sell it), [that is,] buy wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Good News Translation
Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense--these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.
International Standard Version
Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
JPS Tanakh 1917
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Literal Standard Version
Buy truth, and do not sell, | Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Majority Standard Bible
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
New American Bible
Buy truth and do not sell: wisdom, instruction, understanding!
NET Bible
Acquire truth and do not sell it--wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
New Revised Standard Version
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
New Heart English Bible
Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Webster's Bible Translation
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
World English Bible
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Young's Literal Translation
Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
Did you know, one of the most amazing verses in the bible which speaks of "great," and "incomprehensible things" (Jeremiah 33::3 New World Translation) that mankind has NOT known of before, all hidden within the Holy Scriptures themselves for thousands of years, millenniums, can be found below at Leviticus 16:10. Yes, this verse plainly says:
"But the goat over which the lot came up for Azazel should be stood alive before JehovahTO MAKE ATONEMENT FOR IT, so as to send it away for Azazel into the wilderness." -- Leviticus 16:10 New World Translation
Of course we speak of the "Scapegoat," (which is named such in a number of bibles like the popular King James Version, New International Version, as well as the Septuagint Version of the bible), or as some translations refer to this "goat," yes, as the "living goat" that proves to be the 2nd goat in the scenario of the Day of Atonement procedure. Maybe, you personally remember reading about this, when reading the 16th chapter of Leviticus. If so, you no doubt recall reading about this 2nd "goat," the “live goat” that is surprisingly, "ATONED FOR" before … yes, before it is used by Jehovah God in a special sacrificial sense. Indeed, a careful analysis of this verse, namely Leviticus 16:10, shows us the 2nd goat is actually "ATONED FOR" before it is to be used in a "sacrificial sense" for God.
Leviticus 16:10 -- It’s Rendering In The New World Translation, Under Consideration
Indeed, it’s interesting to note the Jehovah's Witnesses own ... yes, their own New World Translation itself actually says the 2nd goat is "atoned for." Let's notice this.
It states:
"But the goat over which the lot came up for Azazel should be stood alive before Jehovah to MAKE ATONEMENT FOR IT, so as to send it away for Azazel into the wilderness." -- Leviticus 16:10 New World Translation
Now, after reading this verse, do you personally think all Jehovah's Witnesses would say this is an INCORRECT RENDERING of this verse?
No, I don't believe they (8.7 million Jehovah's Witnesses) would agree that their bible is INACCURATE on this ... do you think they would say this about their own bible?
Regardless, I would think at this point Jehovah's Witnesses, some 8.7 million strong would be speechless at such a rendering. And why?
Well, because this rendering blatantly contradicts their own beliefs, namely that Jesus himself pictures the 2nd goat. Are you aware that Jehovah's Witnesses are taught this by the Watchtower Society?
For example, take this comment from the Watchtower Society’s publication, Insight on the Scriptures Volume 1, which explains the following about who is actually pictured by the Scapegoat. It states:
“As the apostle Paul explained, by Jesus’ offering of his own perfect human life as a sacrifice for the sins of mankind, he accomplished far more than had been achieved by ‘the blood of bulls and of goats.’ (Heb. 10:4, 11, 12) He thus served as “the scapegoat,” being the ‘carrier of our sicknesses,’ the one “pierced for our transgression.” (Isa. 53:4, Mt 8:17; 1 Pe 2:24) He ‘carried away’ the sins of all who exercise faith in the value of his sacrifice. He demonstrated the provision of God to take sinfulness into complete oblivion. In these ways the goat “for Azazel” [Az·a’zel] pictures the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. -- See Insight On The Scriptures, Volume 1, page 226 paragraph 3.
So then, Jehovah's Witnesses, all 8.7 million of them, would have great difficulty in explaining why 'their own' bible point-blank says, the 2nd goat is "atoned for," and yet it is still supposed to picture Jesus Christ, who is definitely a sin-less person.
