Acts 27:17 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹⁷ 5 Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer; for I believe God that it shall so be, as it hath been told me.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ After hoisting it on board, they used supports with ropes to undergird and brace the ship; then afraid that they would be driven into the Syrtis [quicksands off the north coast of Africa], they lowered the gear (sails and ropes) and so were driven along.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ They brought the lifeboat aboard, then began to wrap the ship with cables to hold it together. Fearing they might run aground on the sandbars of the Gulf of Syrtis, they lowered the anchor and let the ship be carried along.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ When this was taken up, they used it to assist in securing the ship. For they were afraid that they might run aground. And having lowered the sails, they were being driven along in this way.

Acts 27:17 Cross References

Acts 27:16

4 Saying: Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Caesar; and behold, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.

Acts 27:26

4 Wherefore I pray you to take some meat for your health's sake; for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.

Acts 27:29

7 And we were in all in the ship, two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Acts 27:40

And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

Acts 27:41

And he indeed shaking off the beast into the fire, suffered no harm.