Acts 27:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

After they had satisfied their hunger, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And after they had eaten sufficiently, [they proceeded] to lighten the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

When they had eaten as much as they wanted, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And having been nourished with food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Acts 27:38 Cross References

Job 2:4

Then the accuser answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek and a time to lose; a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Jonah 1:5

Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Matthew 4:18

As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea—for they were fishers.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Luke 12:23

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,