he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
Whoever loves his life will lose it, but whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
because he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to make up for your deficit of service to me.
Consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow