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9 We do not need to write you about having love for your Christian family, because God has already taught you to love each other.
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Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.
10 And truly you do love the Christians in all of Macedonia. Brothers and sisters, now we encourage you to love them even more.
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And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,
11 Do all you can to live a peaceful life. Take care of your own business, and do your own work as we have already told you.
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and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,
12 If you do, then people who are not believers will respect you, and you will not have to depend on others for what you need.
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so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
13 Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about those Christians who have died so you will not be sad, as others who have no hope.
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Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.
14 We believe that Jesus died and that he rose again. So, because of him, God will raise with Jesus those who have died.
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For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.
15 What we tell you now is the Lord's own message. We who are living when the Lord comes again will not go before those who have already died.
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According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 The Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. And those who have died believing in Christ will rise first.
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For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
17 After that, we who are still alive will be gathered up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And we will be with the Lord forever.
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After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
18 So encourage each other with these words.
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Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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