en_tn_condensed/1th/04/13.md

We do not want you to be uninformed

"We want you to be informed" or "We want you to know"

those who sleep

"those who have died"

so that you do not grieve like the rest

"because we do not want you to mourn like the rest"

like the rest, who do not have hope

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"