Acts 27:38

Modern English Version

When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship and threw the wheat into the sea.

Cross References

Job 2:4

The Adversary answered the Lord, saying, “Skin for skin; yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek out, and a time to give up; a time to guard, and a time to cast away;

Jonah 1:5

Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They tossed the ship’s cargo into the sea in order to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the hold of the ship, had lain down, and was fast asleep.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 4:18

As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, throwing a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore, I say to you, take no thought about your life, what you will eat, or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body than clothing?

Luke 12:23

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

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are encompassed with such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.