Esther 4:13 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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.

Esther 4:13 Cross References

Esther 4:12

And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.

Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

John 12:25

He that loveth his life loseth it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

Philippians 2:30

because for the work of Christ he came nigh unto death, hazarding his life to supply that which was lacking in your service toward me.

Hebrews 12:3

For consider him that hath endured such gainsaying of sinners against themselves, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your souls.