11 and to make it your ambition (A)to lead a quiet life and (B)attend to your own business and (C)work with your hands, just as we instructed you, 12 so that you will [a](D)behave properly toward (E)outsiders and [b](F)not be in any need.

Those Who Died in Christ

13 But (G)we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who [c](H)are asleep, so that you will not grieve as indeed (I)the rest of mankind do, who have (J)no hope.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit walk
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit have need of nothing
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 I.e., have died

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