²¹ Don’t turn away to follow worthless^[a] things that can’t profit or deliver you; they are worthless.^(A)

⁴ About eating food offered to idols, then, we know that “an idol is nothing in the world,” and that “there is no God but one.”^(A)

⁹ for they themselves report^[a] what kind of reception^(A) we had from you: how you turned^(B) to God from idols^(C) to serve the living^(D) and true^(E) God