Esther 4:13
“Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.”
All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
Cross-References
“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.”
“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”
“Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.”
“Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.”
“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.”