The Jewish leaders answered him, "We are not going to stone you for a good action, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God!"

So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on those who practice these things and then do them yourself, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

On the contrary, who are you mere man that you are to talk back to God? Can an object that was molded say to the one who molded it, "Why did you make me like this?"

Brothers, I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people but as worldly people, as mere infants in the Messiah.

These people, like irrational animals, are mere creatures of instinct that are born to be caught and killed. They insult what they don't understand, and like animals they, too, will be destroyed,

These men are dried-up springs, mere clouds driven by a storm. Gloomy darkness is reserved for them.