Exactly!! Your verse never meant what you seem to think it means. You venerate all saints? That is because you have redefined the word saint. In the bible it has a much simpler meaning.
What I think is inimportant. The verse means what the Church explains it means. If you have an aberrant interpretation, you are entitled to it, and the risk attendant to private interpretations of the Bible is also yours.
you have redefined the word saint
The argument is not about words. We venerate those who after suffering death are alive in communion with Christ: they are our example and we ask their prayers. We do not similarly venerate living saints, because Christ warns against judging people privately. We do, of course, ask living people to pray for us every time, even though we cannot make assumption of them going to heaven yet.