Acts 27:42 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴² The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² 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)

⁴² And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Common English Bible

⁴² The soldiers decided to kill the prisoners to keep them from swimming to shore and escaping.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² 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

⁴² 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 regard for thy covenant; for the dark places of the land are full of the habitations of violence.

Proverbs 12:10

A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; also the hearts of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

Acts 12:19

And when Herod had sought for him and could not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea, and remained there.

Acts 27:24

and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and lo, God has granted you all those who sail with you.’

Acts 27:41

But striking a shoal they ran the vessel aground; the bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was broken up by the surf.

2 Corinthians 11:26

on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren;