Acts 27:38

Acts chapter 27 · verse 38 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Context

v.37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

v.38This passage

v.39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they perceived a certain bay with a beach, and they took counsel whether they could drive the ship upon it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Matthew 16:26

    For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

  • Acts 27:18

    And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

  • Hebrews 12:1

    Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • Matthew 6:25

    Therefore I say unto you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment?

  • Job 2:4

    And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

  • Jonah 1:5

    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.