Then Mordecai told them to return answer to Esther, “Think not that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
And they told Mordecai what Esther had said.
For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete your service to me.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.