But the Most High does not live in buildings made by human hands. As the prophet says,

This was the passage of Scripture that he was reading: "Like a sheep he was led away to be slaughtered, And just as a lamb is dumb before its shearer, He does not open his mouth.

but welcomes the man of any nation who reveres him and does what is right.

Take care, therefore, that what is said in the prophets does not prove true of you:

God who created the world and all that is in it, since he is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples built by human hands,

At last the recorder quieted the mob and said, "Men of Ephesus, who in the world does not know that the city of Ephesus is the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis, and of the image that fell down from the sky?

But my life does not matter, if I can only finish my race and do the service intrusted to me by the Lord Jesus, of declaring the good news of God's favor.