They lift up it on the shoulder; they lift it up and set it in its place, and it stands; it shall not move from its place. Yea, he cries to it, but it does not answer, it does not save him from his distress.
They are like a rounded palm tree, and they cannot speak; lifting they must be lifted, because they cannot walk. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil and not good; it is not with them.
And some were these things, but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
For they themselves report about us what kind of entrance we have to you, and how you had turned to God from the idols, to be a slave to the true and living God,
For we also once were senseless, disobedient, being led astray, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
For the time of life having passed is sufficient for us to have worked out the will of the nations, having gone on in wantonness, lusts, drunkennesses, revelries, carousings, and lawless idolatries;