Acts 27:18

And we being tossed violently by the storm, they were successively making the casting out,

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

17which lifting up they used helps, under-girding the ship; and fearing lest they might fall into Syrtis, lowering the gear, they were thus carried along.

19and on the third day with their own hands they threw overboard the tackling of the ship;

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Cross References

Matthew 16:26For what is a man profited, if he may gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 16:8And the lord praised the steward of unrighteousness because he acted shrewdly: because the sons of this age are wiser in their generation than the sons of the light.

Acts 27:38And having been revived by the food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat over into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which 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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