Acts 27:42 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

It was the counsel of the soldiers to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim to land and escape;

American Standard Version (1901)

And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Common English Bible

The soldiers decided to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming to shore and escaping.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then the soldiers were in agreement that they should kill the prisoners, lest anyone, after escaping by swimming, might flee.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And the soldiers' counsel was, that they should kill the prisoners, lest any of them, swimming out, should escape.

Acts 27:42 Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Have respect unto the covenant: For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: But the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Acts 12:19

And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he examined the guards, and commanded that they should be put to death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and tarried there.

Acts 27:24

saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must stand before Caesar: and lo, God hath granted thee all them that sail with thee.

Acts 27:41

But lighting upon a place where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the foreship struck and remained unmoveable, but the stern began to break up by the violence of the waves.

2 Corinthians 11:26

in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;