that ye walk becomingly towards those without, and that ye may have need of nothing.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those falling asleep, that ye sorrow not even as the rest who have no hope;

for, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those who fell asleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.

For this we say to You, in a word of the Lord, that we, the living who remain over to the coming of the Lord, shall in nowise precede those who fell asleep;

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;