¹¹ and to make it your ambition to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we instructed you. ¹² Do this so that you are conducting yourselves decently toward outsiders and are not lacking anything.

Instruction Concerning the Resurrection of the Dead at Christ’s Second Coming

¹³ We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep,^[a] so that you do not grieve in the same way as the others, who have no hope.