Acts 27:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And when the ship was caught and was unable to head against the wind, we gave up and, letting her drift, were borne along.

American Standard Version (1901)

and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.

Common English Bible

The ship was caught in the storm and couldn’t be turned into the wind. So we gave in to it, and it carried us along.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And once the ship had been caught in it and was not able to strive against the wind, giving over the ship to the winds, we were driven along.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up against the wind, giving up the ship to the winds, we were driven.

Acts 27:15 Cross References

Acts 27:14

But after no long time there beat down from it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euraquilo:

Acts 27:16

And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat:

Acts 27:27

But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in the sea of Adria, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some country;

James 3:4

Behold, the ships also, though they are so great, and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth.