James 3:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Beholde also ye shyppes, which though they be so gret, and are dryuen of fearce windes, yet are they turned about with a very smale helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouerner wyll.

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  • Ps 107:25-27 : 25 For at his worde, the stormy wynde aryseth, and lifteth vp the wawes therof. 26 They are caried vp to the heauen, & downe agayne to the depe, their soule melteth awaye in the trouble. 27 They rele to and fro, they stacker like a droncken man, and are at their wittes ende.
  • Jonah 1:4 : 4 But the LORDE hurled a greate wynde in to the see, and there was a mightie tempest in the see: so that the shippe was in ioperdy of goinge in peces.
  • Matt 8:24 : 24 And beholde, there arose a greate tempest in the see, in so moch that the shippe was couered with wawes, & he was a slepe.
  • Acts 27:14-38 : 14 But not longe after, there rose agaynst their purpose a flawe of wynde, which is called the Northeast. 15 And whan the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist ye wynde, we let her go, and draue with the wedder. 16 But we came to an Ile named Claudia, where we coulde scarce get a bote. 17 Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and bounde it vnder harde to the shippe, fearinge lest they shulde haue fallen in to the Syrtes, and let downe the vessell, and so were caried. 18 And whan we had bydden a greate tepest, on the nexte daye they made an outcastinge. 19 And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe. 20 But wha nether Sonne ner starres appeared in many dayes, and no small tempest laye vpon vs, all the hope of oure life was taken awaye. 21 And after longe abstinence, Paul stode forth in the myddes of the, and sayde: Syrs, ye shulde haue herkened vnto me, and not to haue lowsed from Candy, and not to haue broughte vs this harme and losse. 22 And now I exhorte you to be of good cheare, for there shal none of oure lyues perishe, but the shippe onely. 23 For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & who I serue) 24 & saide: Feare not Paul, thou must be broughte before the Emperoure. And lo, God hath geuen vnto the all the that sayle with the. 25 Wherfore syrs be of good cheare: for I beleue God, yt it shal come so to passe, as it was tolde me. 26 Howbeit we must be cast in to a certayne ylonde. 27 But whan the fourtenth night came, as we were caried in Adria aboute mydnight, ye shipmen demed that there appeared some countre vnto them, 28 and they cast out the leade, and founde it twetye feddoms: and wha they were gone a litle farther, they cast out the leade agayne, and founde fyftene feddoms. 29 Then fearinge lest they shulde fall on some rocke, they cast foure anckers out of the sterne, and wysshed for the daye. 30 Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the shippe, and let downe the bote in to the see, (vnder a coloure as though they wolde cast ankers out of the fore shippe) 31 Paul sayde to ye vndercaptayne and to the soudyers: Excepte these byde in the shippe, ye can not be saued. 32 Then the soudyers cut of the rope from the bote, and let it fall. 33 And whan it beganne to be daye, Paul exhorted them all to take meate, and sayde: To daye is the fourtene daye that ye haue taried and contynued fastinge, and haue receaued nothinge: 34 Wherfore I praye you to take meate, for youre health: for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you. 35 And whan he had thus spoken, he toke bred, and gaue thankes to God before them all, and brake it, and begane to eate. 36 Then were they all of good cheare, and toke meate also. 37 We were all together in the shippe two hundreth thre score and sixtene soules. 38 And whan they had eaten ynough, they lightened the shippe, and cast out the wheate in to the see.

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    5Euen so the toge is a lyttell member, and bosteth great thinges. Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre kyndleth,

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    25So is this greate and wyde see also, wherin are thinges crepinge innumerable, both small and greate beastes.

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  • Acts 27:39-41
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    39Whan it was daye, they knewe not the londe. But they spyed an hauen with a banke, in to which they were mynded (yf it were possible) to thrust in the shippe.

    40And whan they had take vp the anckers, they commytted them selues to the see, and lowsed the rudder bandes, and hoyssed vp the mayne sayle to the wynde, and drue towarde londe.

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    23They that go downe to the see in shippes, & occupie their busynesse in greate waters.

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    13Whan the South wynde blewe, they supposinge to haue had their purpose, lowsed vnto Asson, and sayled past all Candy.

    14But not longe after, there rose agaynst their purpose a flawe of wynde, which is called the Northeast.

    15And whan the shippe was caught, and coulde not resist ye wynde, we let her go, and draue with the wedder.

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    11and sayde morouer vnto him: What shall we do vnto the, that the see maye ceasse from troublinge vs? (for the see wrought and was troublous)

    12he answered them: Take me, and cast me in to the see, so shal it let you be in rest: for I wote, it is for my sake, that this greate tempest is come vpon you.

    13Neuerthelesse, the men assayed with rowinge, to brynge the shippe to lode: but it wolde not be, because the see wrought so, & was so troublous agaynst them.

  • Ezek 27:25-26
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    25The shippes of Tharsis were the chefe off thy occupienge. Thus thou art full, and in greate worshipe, euen in the myddest off the see.

    26Thy maryners were euer brynginge vnto the out of many waters. But ye easte wynde shal ouerbeare the in to the myddest off the see:

  • Mark 4:36-38
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    36And they let the people go, and toke him as he was in the shippe, and there were mo shippes with him.

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    17Which they toke vp, and vsed helpe, and bounde it vnder harde to the shippe, fearinge lest they shulde haue fallen in to the Syrtes, and let downe the vessell, and so were caried.

    18And whan we had bydden a greate tepest, on the nexte daye they made an outcastinge.

    19And on the thirde daye with oure awne handes we cast out the tacklynge of the shippe.

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    29All whirry men, and all maryners vpo the see, shall leape out of their boates, and set them selues vpon the lode.

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  • Ps 107:29-30
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    29He maketh the storme to ceasse, so that the wawes are still.

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    16vpon all shippes of the see, and vpon euery thinge yt is glorious and pleasaunt to loke vpon.

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    27And Hiram sent his seruauntes by shippe, which were shipmen, and had experience of the See, with Salomons seruauntes,

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    30Whan the shipmen were aboute to flye out of the shippe, and let downe the bote in to the see, (vnder a coloure as though they wolde cast ankers out of the fore shippe)

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    27And the men marueyled and sayde: what ma is this, that both wyndes and see obey hym?

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    7And whan we had sayled slowly, and in many dayes were scarcely come ouer agaynst Gnydon (for the wynde with stode vs) we sayled by Candy nye vnto the cite off Salmo,

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