¹⁵ “Friends, why are you doing this? We too are only human,^(A) like you. We are bringing you good news,^(B) telling you to turn from these worthless things^(C) to the living God,^(D) who made the heavens and the earth^(E) and the sea and everything in them.^(F)

²⁶ And you see and hear how this fellow Paul has convinced and led astray large numbers of people here in Ephesus^(A) and in practically the whole province of Asia.^(B) He says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all.^(C)