Acts 27:18

And we being violently tempest-tossed, the next day they lightened the ship;

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

In The King James Version

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

In Context

17which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast away on the quicksand, they lowered the sail, and so were driven.

19and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

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Cross References

Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? Or what shall a man give as an exchange[16:26] for his soul?

Luke 16:8And the master commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely; because the sons of this world are, in their generation, wiser than the sons of light.

Acts 27:38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting out the grain into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1THEREFORE, let us also, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding, us, lay aside every weight, and the easily besetting sin, and with patience run the race that is set before us,

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:13-21

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 12 And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west. 13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. 14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was… Read the whole commentary →

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