Their ¹  idols are made of silver and gold – they are man-made. ² 

The nations’ idols are made of silver and gold, they are man-made. ¹ 

and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” ¹ 

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’ ¹ 

They will say, ¹  ‘This man ²  began to build and was not able to finish!’ ³ 

And they will turn away from hearing the truth, but on the other hand they will turn aside to myths. ¹ 

Now ¹  I want you to know, brothers and sisters, ²  that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. ³ 

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

“We heard him say, ‘I will destroy this temple made with hands and in three days build another not made with hands.’”

The God who made the world and everything in it, ¹  who is ²  Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands, ³ 

Brothers and sisters, ¹  I offer an example from everyday life: ²  When a covenant ³  has been ratified, ⁴  even though it is only a human contract, no one can set it aside or add anything to it.

You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person ¹  and murders him,

Now the priests would always treat the people in the following way: ¹  Whenever anyone was making a sacrifice, while the meat was boiling, the priest’s attendant would come with a three-pronged fork ²  in his hand.

Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half-district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors.

The sovereign master ¹  says, “These people say they are loyal to me; ²  they say wonderful things about me, ³  but they are not really loyal to me. ⁴  Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual. ⁵ 

Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you – though you are a man and not a god – when you are in the power of those who wound you?

What good ¹  is an idol? Why would a craftsman make it? ²  What good is a metal image that gives misleading oracles? ³  Why would its creator place his trust in it ⁴  and make ⁵  such mute, worthless things?

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches. ¹ ) ² 

Then ¹  he began to tell the people this parable: “A man ²  planted a vineyard, ³  leased it to tenant farmers, ⁴  and went on a journey for a long time.