the God who made the world and all the things in it. This one, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,

“Men, why are you doing these things? We too are only men of the same nature as you, bringing the good news to you, so that you turn from these useless and meaningless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything that is in them.

You see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost all over [the province of] Asia, this Paul has persuaded [people to believe his teaching] and has misled a large number of people, claiming that gods made by [human] hands are not really gods at all.

But the Most High does not live in [houses] made by human hands, just as the prophet says,

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

So since we are God's offspring, we should not think the deity is like gold or silver or stone, an image made by human skill and imagination.