8. So if you don't obey these rules, you are not really disobeying us. You are disobeying God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9. We don't have to write to you about the need to love each other. God has taught you to do this,
10. and you already have shown your love for all his people in Macedonia. But, my dear friends, we ask you to do even more.
11. Try your best to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work hard, just as we taught you to do.
12. Then you will be respected by people who are not followers of the Lord, and you won't have to depend on anyone.
13. My friends, we want you to understand how it will be for those followers who have already died. Then you won't grieve over them and be like people who don't have any hope.
14. We believe that Jesus died and was raised to life. We also believe that when God brings Jesus back again, he will bring with him all who had faith in Jesus before they died.