And yes I read the passage, I just don’t think it refutes veneration of relics and honoring the dead.
You interprets it that way, I can find nobody before Luther, Calvin and Zwingli that shared your views save maybe the early Gnostics who rejected the Incarnation outright and thus did not believe in a resurrection of the body thus they would reject venerating or honoring the dead.
Then you should have know my answer to your question rather than asking it again.
>>I can find nobody before Luther, Calvin and Zwingli that shared your views<<
Once again, show where the apostles taught the veneration of those who passed from this life. If you can't it has to be something the Catholic Church added doesn't it.