Hebrews 1:6
Hebrews 1:66And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”
The NWT renders the verse "let all God's angels do obeisance to him." JWs argue proskuneō here means respectful bowing — the kind of honour due a king's envoy — not religious worship. Angels honour Jesus as Jehovah's appointed representative, not as God. The 1961 NWT actually read "worship" here; the 1971 revision changed it to "obeisance" and the 2013 revision deleted even the footnote that acknowledged "worship" as a valid alternative.
The Greek proskuneō receives consistent treatment everywhere else in the NWT — "worship" when directed at the Father (Matt 4:10), at Satan (Matt 4:9), at the Beast (Rev 13:4), and at idols () — but becomes "obeisance" only when the object is Jesus. The dual standard is theological, not linguistic. Worse, the quotation in Heb 1:6 comes from (preserved in the LXX and confirmed in pre-Christian Hebrew at Qumran 4QDeutq), where the one being worshipped is Jehovah himself — Deut 32:39 has Jehovah declaring "I am He; there is no God besides me." A monotheistic Jewish author would not apply a Jehovah-worship text to a creature unless he identified the Son with Jehovah. And note: the verse says God "commands" this proskuneō — God does not command idolatry.
The verb proskuneō occurs 60 times in the NT. The KIT interlinear glosses it consistently as "doing obeisance" regardless of object, but the NWT smooth column splits the rendering by recipient: "worship" for God, Satan, the Beast, demons, and idols (22+ occurrences) and "do obeisance" for Jesus across all 17 occurrences. The 1961 NWT read "worship" at Heb 1:6; the 1971 revision changed it to "obeisance"; the 1984 footnote allowed "Or, 'let…worship'"; the 2013 footnote was changed to "Or, 'bow down to him'" — the word "worship" was completely removed even from the footnote. This progression tracks the Watchtower's 1954 doctrinal shift away from worshipping Jesus, not any change in the Greek text.