Acts 27:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ As we were being dangerously tossed about by the violence of the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ We were so battered by the violent storm that the next day the men began throwing cargo overboard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ Then, since we were being tossed about strongly by the tempest, on the following day, they threw the heavy items overboard.

Acts 27:18 Cross References

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.

Acts 27:38

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

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,

Acts 27:19

and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackle overboard.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

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?

Psalm 107:27

they reeled and staggered like drunkards and were at their wits’ end.

Luke 12:23

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