Acts 27:38

Catholic Public Domain Version

And having been nourished with food, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Cross References

Job 2:4

Answering him, Satan said, "Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.

Jonah 1:5

And the mariners were afraid, and the men cried out to their god. And they threw the containers that were in the ship into the sea in order to lighten it of them. And Jonah went down into the interior of the ship, and he fell into a painful deep sleep.

Matthew 16:26

For how does it benefit a man, if he gains the whole world, yet truly suffers damage to his soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 4:18

And Jesus, walking near the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea (for they were fishermen).

Matthew 6:25

And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Luke 12:23

Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

Hebrews 12:1

Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.