How to Remain in God’s Love (lvs), “Chapter 3, Choose Friends Who Love God (par. 19-20) and Endnote 8, Disfellowshipping”
“When someone is disfellowshipped, we have no more dealings with that person and we stop talking to him. (1 Corinthians 5:11; 2 John 9-11)”
Ch. 3 par. 19: 'This can be very difficult if he is a friend of ours or a member of our family. But in a situation like this, our loyalty to Jehovah must be stronger than our loyalty to anyone else.' The Norwegian Supreme Court treated this 2017/2018 book as the current doctrinal statement (para 39-40). Endnotes doc: wol 1102017578.
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Provenance and verification note for How to Remain in God’s Love (lvs), Chapter 3, Choose Friends Who Love God (par. 19-20) and Endnote 8, Disfellowshipping
Confidence note. The quoted sentence is Endnote 8 of the book (online library document 1102017578, under page marker 241, the page the elders’ handbook tells elders to review); chapter 3 (document 1102017562) pars. 19-20 confirmed separately. Corrected by the independent source auditor on 19 September 2026.
Corroborated by. src-court-no-2026-0429-supreme-court
Notes. Chapter 3 text: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102017562
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-lvs-2017-remain-in-gods-love