Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not think to yourself that in the king's palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.
Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
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