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.
When they told Mordecai what Esther had said,
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.”
Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
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.
Consider him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you may not grow weary in your souls or lose heart.