Acts 27:42

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Psalm 74:20

Remember the agreement you made with us. Violent enemies are hiding in every dark corner of the earth.

Proverbs 12:10

Good people are kind to their animals, but a mean person is cruel.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

It's terribly unfair for the same thing to happen to each of us. We are mean and foolish while we live, and then we die.

Acts 12:19

Herod ordered his own soldiers to search for him, but they could not find him. Then he questioned the guards and had them put to death. After this, Herod left Judea to stay in Caesarea for a while.

Acts 27:24

to tell me, “Paul, don't be afraid! You will stand trial before the Emperor. And because of you, God will save the lives of everyone on the ship.”

Acts 27:41

But it ran aground on a sandbank. The front of the ship stuck firmly in the sand, and the rear was being smashed by the force of the waves.

2 Corinthians 11:26

During my many travels, I have been in danger from rivers, robbers, my own people, and foreigners. My life has been in danger in cities, in deserts, at sea, and with people who only pretended to be the Lord's followers.