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# General Information:
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Paul talks about believers who have died, those who are now alive, and those who will be alive when Christ returns.
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# We do not want you to be uninformed
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This can be stated in positive form. Alternate translation: "We want you to be informed" or "We want you to know"
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# brothers
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Here "brothers" means fellow Christians.
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# those who sleep
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Here "sleep" is a euphemism for being dead. Alternate translation: "those who have died" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])
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# so that you do not grieve like the rest
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"because we do not want you grieve like the rest"
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# grieve
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mourn, be sad about something
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# like the rest, who do not have hope
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Here "hope" means a certainty about the future. What those people do not have confidence about can be stated clearly. Alternate translation: "like people who do not have confidence in the future promise" or "like the people who are not sure that they will rise from the dead" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-explicit]])
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