Philippians 2:11
Philippians 2:1111and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Jehovah's Witnesses read this verse as the climax of Jesus' exaltation by Jehovah — every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is "Lord," but they insist this lordship is delegated authority, not deity. The confession is said to glorify God the Father precisely because Jesus is not the Father; the honour flows upward from a subordinate to the supreme sovereign. The Watchtower uses this verse to argue that Jesus' exalted position still falls within the creaturely order, with Jehovah remaining uniquely God.
completes the quotation begun in verse 10. In YHWH declares "every tongue will swear loyalty" to himself — and Paul applies this to Jesus, making "Jesus Christ is Lord" the universal confession. The phrase "to the glory of God the Father" does not diminish the confession but locates it within Trinitarian theology: the Father is glorified when the Son receives the worship that Isaiah reserved for YHWH alone, because the Father and the Son share one divine nature. The NWT's selective treatment is again visible: at the NWT renders kyrios as "Lord," but at — quoting the same — the NWT inserts "Jehovah." The inconsistency demonstrates that the NWT's insertion pattern follows theology rather than evidence: "Jehovah" appears where it separates Jesus from YHWH, and "Lord" is retained where inserting "Jehovah" would identify Jesus as YHWH.
quotes , where YHWH says "to me… every tongue will swear loyalty." The NWT's stated rule is to insert "Jehovah" where the NT quotes an OT YHWH passage. Here, however, the NWT retains "Lord" — because inserting "Jehovah" would produce "every tongue should openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Jehovah." Compare , which quotes the same : there the NWT does insert "Jehovah" because the referent is less explicitly Christ. The same OT source receives different NWT treatment depending on whether the context identifies Jesus as the one receiving YHWH's worship.