Acts 27:34

I therefore strongly advise you to take some food. This is essential for your safety. For not a hair will perish from the head of any one of you."

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 continually, up till daybreak, Paul kept urging all on board to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said, "that you have been anxiously waiting for the storm to cease, and have fasted, eating little or nothing.

35Having said this he took some bread, and, after giving thanks to God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began to eat it.

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Cross References

Matthew 15:32But Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, "My heart yearns over this mass of people, for it is now the third day that they have been with me and they have nothing to eat. I am unwilling to send them away hungry, lest they should faint on the road."

Luke 12:7But the very hairs on your heads are all counted. Away with fear: you are more precious than a multitude of sparrows.'

Philippians 2:5Let the same disposition be in you which was 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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