²⁰ but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,^(A) from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

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

²¹ Little children, guard yourselves from idols.