4 Now concerning the eating+ of foods offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing+ in the world,* and that there is no God but one.+

8 Nevertheless, when YOU did not know God,+ then it was that YOU slaved for those who by nature are not gods.+

9 For they themselves keep reporting about the way we first entered in among YOU and how YOU turned to God from [YOUR] idols+ to slave for a living+ and true+ God,

3 For the time+ that has passed by is sufficient for YOU to have worked out the will of the nations+ when YOU proceeded in deeds of loose conduct,*+ lusts, excesses with wine,+ revelries, drinking matches, and illegal idolatries.+