Acts 27:18

New International Reader's Version

We took a very bad beating from the storm. The next day the crew began to throw the ship’s contents overboard.

Cross References

Psalm 107:27

They were unsteady like people who have become drunk. They didn’t know what to do.

Jonah 1:5

All the sailors were afraid. Each one cried out to his own god for help. They threw the ship’s contents into the sea. They were trying to make the ship lighter. But Jonah had gone below deck. There he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.

Matthew 16:26

What good is it if someone gains the whole world but loses their soul? Or what can anyone trade for their soul?

Luke 12:23

There is more to life than eating. There are more important things for the body than clothes.

Luke 16:8

“The manager had not been honest. But the master praised him for being clever. The people of this world are clever in dealing with those who are like themselves. They are more clever than God’s people.

Acts 27:19

On the third day, they even threw the ship’s tools and supplies overboard with their own hands.

Acts 27:38

They ate as much as they wanted. They needed to make the ship lighter. So they threw the rest of the grain into the sea.

Hebrews 12:1

A huge cloud of witnesses is all around us. So let us throw off everything that stands in our way. Let us throw off any sin that holds on to us so tightly. And let us keep on running the race marked out for us.