Acts 27:15 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁵ Since the ship was caught and could not be turned head-on into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the wind, we let her drive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ 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)

¹⁵ and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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

¹⁵ 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 soon a violent wind, called the northeaster, rushed down from Crete.

Acts 27:16

By running under the lee of a small island called Cauda we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.

Acts 27:27

When the fourteenth night had come, as we were drifting across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.

James 3:4

Or look at ships: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, yet they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.