Love, Diligence, and Quiet Living

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.