Acts 27:38

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

Cross References

Job 2:4

Then Satan answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give for his life.

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

Jonah 1:5

Then the mariners were afraid, and each cried to his god; and they threw the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. But Jonah had gone down into the inner part of the ship and had lain down, and was fast asleep.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

Matthew 4:18

As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

Matthew 6:25

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Luke 12:23

For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,