Acts 27:34

Wherefore I exhort you to take some food, for this is for your preservation: for a hair shall not fall from the head of any one of you.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

In Context

33And while they waited until the day should break, Paul exhorted them all to take some nourishment, saying, To day, expecting the fourteenth day, ye are continuing without food, taking nothing.

35And so saying, and taking a loaf, he gave thanks to God before them all, and breaking it, began to eat.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:32Then Jesus calling his disciples, said, I have compassion on the multitude, for they have now continued with me three days, and have not any thing to eat: and send them away fasting I will not, lest they faint on the road.

Luke 12:7But even the hairs of your head are all numbered: fear not then, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Philippians 2:5Let the same sentiment of mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Matthew Henry on Acts 27:22-44

Paul's Voyage towards Rome. 21 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss. 22 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man's life among you, but of the ship. 23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cæsar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them… Read the whole commentary →

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