Loving and Working

⁹ About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God^(A) to love one another.^{(B) 10} In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia.^(C) But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, ¹¹ to seek to lead a quiet life,^(D) to mind your own business,^[a] and to work^(E) with your own hands, as we commanded you, ¹² so that you may behave properly^(F) in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.^[b](G)