9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
10for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,
14for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,
15for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,