Marriages must be monogamous. Wives should be submissive to their husbands and husbands are to have deep respect and love for their wives, and are instructed to listen to them on all matters. Husbands are instructed to treat their wives as Jesus treated his followers.
Monogamy between one man and one woman and sex only within marriage are requirements in the Witness religion. But Witnesses do permit divorce in certain cases, believing that the only valid ground for divorce and remarriage is adultery. Divorce is not allowed except in extremely limited circumstances.
Do Jehovah's Witnesses wear wedding rings? Yes they do and it has been covered several times on this forum why this is NOT a pagan custom that is to be avoided. While it is true that some pagan societies did use wedding rings, they have no pagan worship significance any more than they do today.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe they should remove themselves from the worldly influences of nonbelievers. Gambling, drinking, drugs, and tobacco are forbidden by the church. They also show their separation from nonbelievers by adhering to strict rules of modest dress and grooming.
Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate Christmas, birthdays, or any holidays with a pagan origin. They are also prohibited from entering into what they consider unclean practices such as receiving blood transfusions, and entering military service is prohibited.
DIET/FOOD PREFERENCE & PRACTICES
Jehovah's Witnesses abstain from eating the meat of animals from which blood has not been properly drained.
How do the Jehovah's Witnesses feel about cussing? It's frowned upon. The Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian group that believes Armageddon is imminent, discourage members from any sort of foul language on the grounds that it's expressly forbidden in the Bible.
Jehovah's Witnesses strive to follow the Golden Rule by treating others the way they themselves would like to be treated. —Matthew 7:12.
They limit contact with non-Jehovah's Witnesses
JWs are advised not to join groups or teams outside the faith and are also discouraged from higher education.
He then looked down at a Bible and read from Deuteronomy 19:15: “No single witness can convict another for any error or any sin that he may commit. On the testimony of two witnesses, or on the testimony of three witnesses, the matter should be established.”
Family planning
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that the Bible is the inspired word of God or Jehovah. As the Bible does not directly discuss birth control, birth control is seen as a personal decision and is left to the individual's conscience.
If you didn't dress modestly, you'd start getting in trouble. Later, some rules on clothing extended to men (tight pants were too “homosexual”). But when I was a Jehovah's Witness, tight pants for men were not yet in fashion, so the women got most of the counsel, as we did in many other parts of our lives, too.
Jehovah's Witnesses do not celebrate any holidays, so even a generic card would be inappropriate.
We don't celebrate any religious or national holidays so there is no specific occasssion to give a Witness a gift (accept perhaps, wedding gift, anniversary gift, graduation gift, baptism gift) But you can always give a Witness a gift just because.
'Two witness rule'
Jehovah's Witnesses' congregational judicial policies require the testimony of two material witnesses to establish a perpetrator's serious sin in the absence of confession. The organization considers this policy to be a protection against malicious accusations of sexual assault.
We are free to join in a wedding party of anyone we want; what one Witness decides to do or refrains from doing doesn't set the standard for all JWs across the board. Each of us acts according to the dictates of our conscience.
Jehovah's Witnesses fund their activities, such as publishing, constructing and operating facilities, evangelism, and disaster relief via donations.
When a judicial committee decides that a baptized Witness has committed a serious sin and is unrepentant, the person is disfellowshipped. A person who believes that a serious error in judgment has been made may appeal the decision.
Members who choose to leave the religion due to moral or doctrinal objections are shunned by the community. Members who sin in the eyes of their congregation are shunned as well (Pietkiewicz, 2014).
Based on their understanding of scriptures such as Revelation 14:1-4, Jehovah's Witnesses believe that exactly 144,000 faithful Christians go to heaven to rule with Christ in the kingdom of God.
CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES.
Each congregation is cared for by a group of scripturally qualified individuals known as the body of elders. The majority of elders are family men and maintain secular employment to support their families. Jehovah's Witnesses do not have a salaried clergy nor any employees.
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that a human must not sustain his life with another creature's blood, and they recognize no distinction "between taking blood into the mouth and taking it into the blood vessels." It is their deep-seated religious conviction that Jehovah will turn his back on anyone who receives blood ...
"Some people think we knock on doors to change their religion," he said. "We teach the Bible. We look for those who may have a question about the Bible, such as why we get sick or why we die, questions people have. For those who have their own religion, we move on."