Now as to the (A)love of the brothers and sisters, you (B)have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are (C)taught by God to love one another; 10 for indeed (D)you practice it toward all the brothers and sisters who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to (E)excel even more, 11 and to make it your ambition (F)to lead a quiet life and (G)attend to your own business and (H)work with your hands, just as we instructed you, 12 so that you will [a](I)behave properly toward (J)outsiders and [b](K)not be in any need.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit walk
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit have need of nothing

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for (A)you yourselves are taught by God (B)to love one another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, (C)that you increase more and more; 11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, (D)to mind your own business, and (E)to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 (F)that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

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