Cross References

Acts 27:31

New American Bible - revised edition

But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

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Come now, let me advise you so that you may save your life and the life of your son Solomon.

Everything that the Father gives me will come to me, and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,

The centurion, however, paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.

The sailors then tried to abandon ship; they lowered the dinghy to the sea on the pretext of going to lay out anchors from the bow.

So the soldiers cut the ropes of the dinghy and set it adrift.

and then the rest, some on planks, others on debris from the ship. In this way, all reached shore safely.