6:5 Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers, neither be ye afraid of them, when ye see the multitude before them and behind them, worshipping them. 6:6 But say ye in your hearts, O Lord, we must worship thee. 6:7 For mine angel is with you, and I myself caring for your souls. 6:8 As for their tongue, it is polished by the workman, and they themselves are gilded and laid over with silver; yet are they but false, and cannot speak. 6:9 And taking gold, as it were for a virgin that loveth to go gay, they make crowns for the heads of their gods. 6:10 Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver, and bestow it upon themselves. 6:11 Yea, they will give thereof to the common harlots, and deck them as men with garments, [being] gods of silver, and gods of gold, and wood. 6:12 Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moth, though they be covered with purple raiment. 6:13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple, when there is much upon them. 6:14 And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre, as though he were a judge of the country. 6:15 He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax: but cannot deliver himself from war and thieves. 6:16 Whereby they are known not to be gods: therefore fear them not. 6:17 For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken; even so it is with their gods: when they be set up in the temple, their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in. 6:18 And as the doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king, as being committed to suffer death: even so the priests make fast their temples with doors, with locks, and bars, lest their gods be spoiled with robbers. 6:19 They light them candles, yea, more than for themselves, whereof they cannot see one. 6:20 They are as one of the beams of the temple, yet they say their hearts are gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth; and when they eat them and their clothes, they feel it not. 6:21 Their faces are blacked through the smoke that cometh out of the temple. 6:22 Upon their bodies and heads sit bats, swallows, and birds, and the cats also. 6:23 By this ye may know that they are no gods: therefore fear them not. 6:24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful, except they wipe off the rust, they will not shine: for neither when they were molten did they feel it. 6:25 The things wherein there is no breath are bought for a most high price. 6:26 They are borne upon shoulders, having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth. 6:27 They also that serve them are ashamed: for if they fall to the ground at any time, they cannot rise up again of themselves: neither, if one set them upright, can they move of themselves: neither, if they be bowed down, can they make themselves straight: but they set gifts before them as unto dead men.