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.

¹⁰ If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

¹¹ If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

¹² If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.

²⁵ He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

³ For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.