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To properly understand what the writers of the Word had in mind we have to draw upon the Greek. Anything apart from that we begin to lose the original intent.

Using Biblehub.com I did a word search for veneration. Results are below:

σέβομαι(seb'-om-ahee)

4576 sébomai – properly, personally esteem; to hold something (someone) in high respect; showing the reverence or awe (veneration) of someone who is devout.

[4576 (sébomai) always occurs in the Greek middle voice in the NT, accounting for the deep, personal sense of veneration involved.]

It is used 10x in the NT.

Not all of these are used in reference to God.

Acts 19:27 illustrates this:

Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence."

The word for worship is derived from this definition.

Another word is

εὐσέβεια (eusebeia) (yoo-seb'-i-ah)

2150 eusébeia (from 2095 /eú "well" and 4576 /sébomai, "venerate, pay homage") – properly, someone's inner response to the things of God which shows itself in godly piety (reverence). 2150 /eusébeia ("godly heart-response") naturally expresses itself in reverence for God, i.e. what He calls sacred (worthy of veneration).

It is used 15x in the NT.