So then, here’s what I say about eating food sacrificed to idols. We know that “an idol really is nothing at all in the world.” We know that “there is only one God.”
All the other believers are already talking about the kind of welcome you gave us, about how you turned away from idols to serve the living and true God,
You’ve spent enough time in the past doing what ungodly people choose to do. You lived a wild life and wanted the wrong things. You got drunk and went to wild parties. You worshiped statues of gods, which is something the Lord hates.
God wisely planned that the world wouldn’t be able to understand him through its own wisdom. Instead, God was happy to use the foolish things we preach to save those who believe.
See what great love the Father has given us: We’re even called children of God! And that’s what we really are. The world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
As I walked around, I looked carefully at the things you worship. I even found an altar that said, to an unknown god. Now I’m going to tell you about this ‘god’ that you worship without knowing who he is.