For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

I call on you solemnly in the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers and sisters.

In this way you will live a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.