So don't try to change what you were when God chose you.
When you are far from home, you feel like a bird without a nest.
In every church I tell the people to stay as they were when the Lord Jesus chose them and God called them to be his own. Now I say the same thing to you.
If you are married, stay married. If you are not married, don't try to get married.
Try your best to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work hard, just as we taught you to do.
So, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ, we ask and beg these people to settle down and start working for a living.