Esther 4:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Then Mordecai told them to return this answer to Esther, Do not flatter yourself that you shall escape in the king's palace any more than all the other Jews.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Then Mordecai bade them return answer unto Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

Common English Bible

¹³ he had them respond to Esther: “Don’t think for one minute that, unlike all the other Jews, you’ll come out of this alive simply because you are in the palace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ And when they were going in to the king, whatever they requested to adorn themselves, they received, and when each was pleased with herself, having been prepared in the chamber of the women, she passed on to the king's chamber.

English Standard Version 2016

¹³ Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.

Esther 4:13 Cross References

Esther 4:12

When they told Mordecai what Esther had said,

Esther 4:14

For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this.”

John 12:25

Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

Philippians 2:30

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for those services that you could not give me.

Hebrews 12:3

Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.