Acts 27:38

Bible in Basic English 1965

And when they had had enough food, they made the weight of the ship less, turning the grain out into the sea.

Cross References

Job 2:4

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;

Jonah 1:5

Then the sailors were full of fear, every man crying to his god; and the goods in the ship were dropped out into the sea to make the weight less. But Jonah had gone down into the inmost part of the ship where he was stretched out in a deep sleep.

Matthew 16:26

For what profit has a man, if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Matthew 4:18

And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Matthew 6:25

So I say to you, Take no thought for your life, about food or drink, or about clothing for your body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than its clothing?

Luke 12:23

Is not life more than food, and the body than its clothing?

Hebrews 12:1

For this reason, as we are circled by so great a cloud of witnesses, putting off every weight, and the sin into which we come so readily, let us keep on running in the way which is marked out for us,