---
title: Psalms 89:6
url: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/psalms-89-6/
markdown: https://jw-apologetics.app/verses/psalms-89-6.md
type: verse
perspective: Protestant (historic Nicene) response to Jehovah's Witness teaching
reference: Psalms 89:6
testament: OT
section: Poetry
index: https://jw-apologetics.app/llms.txt
---

# Psalms 89:6

## Text (Berean Standard Bible)

> For who in the skies can compare with the LORD? Who among the heavenly beings is like the LORD?

## NWT Wording of the Key Phrase

- NWT (2013 revision): "Who in the skies can compare to Jehovah? Who among the sons of God is like Jehovah?"

## JW Usage

JWs read Psalm 89:6 as confirming Jehovah's incomparability among spiritual beings. Jesus, being "a god" but not Jehovah, is held to be one of the "sons of God" referenced here — superior to other creatures but decisively below the Father. The verse is treated as evidence for the two-category framework: Jehovah on one side, all other elohim (including Jesus) on the other.

## Protestant Usage

This is the Hebrews 1:3 syllogism's keystone. Read in the JW's own NWT: "Who in the skies can compare to Jehovah? Who among the sons of God is like Jehovah?" The implied answer is nobody. Now place Hebrews 1:3 next to it: Jesus is "the exact representation of [God's] very being." If no son of God can resemble Jehovah, and Jesus is the exact representation of Jehovah's being, the contradiction is forced unless Jesus is not merely a son of God but Jehovah himself. The argument needs no Greek, no contested NWT rendering, and no external scholarship — only consistent reading of the JW's own Bible. Let the contradiction sit; do not rush to fill the silence.

## Arguments Using This Verse

- [The Exact Representation Problem](https://jw-apologetics.app/arguments/heb1-3-psalm89-contradiction.md) — Hebrews 1:3 vs Psalm 89:6 [Deity of Christ]