James 3:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

Behold also the shippes, which though they be so great, and are driuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small rudder, whither soeuer the gouernour listeth.

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  • Ps 107:25-27 : 25 For he commaundeth and raiseth the stormie winde, and it lifteth vp the waues thereof. 26 They mount vp to the heauen, and descend to ye deepe, so that their soule melteth for trouble. 27 They are tossed to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone.
  • Jonah 1:4 : 4 But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
  • Matt 8:24 : 24 And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.
  • Acts 27:14-38 : 14 But anon after, there arose by it a stormy winde called Euroclydon. 15 And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away. 16 And we ran vnder a litle Yle named Clauda, and had much a doe to get the boat. 17 Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen into Syrtes, and they strake saile, and so were caried. 18 The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship. 19 And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship. 20 And when neither sunne nor starres in many dayes appeared, and no small tempest lay vpon vs, all hope that we should be saued, was then taken away. 21 But after long abstinece, Paul stood forth in the mids of them, and said, Syrs, ye should haue hearkened to me, and not haue loosed from Candie: so should ye haue gained this hurt and losse. 22 But now I exhort you to be of good courage: for there shalbe no losse of any mans life among you, saue of the ship onely. 23 For there stood by me this night the Angel of God, whose I am, and whome I serue, 24 Saying, Feare not, Paul: for thou must be brought before Cesar: and lo, God hath giuen vnto thee freely all that sayle with thee. 25 Wherefore, sirs, be of good courage: for I beleeue God, that it shall be so as it hath bene tolde me. 26 Howbeit, we must be cast into a certaine Iland. 27 And when ye fourteenth night was come, as we were caried to and fro in the Adriaticall sea about midnight, the shipmen deemed that some countrey approched vnto them, 28 And sounded, & found it twentie fathoms: and when they had gone a litle further, they sounded againe, and found fifteene fathoms. 29 Then fearing least they should haue fallen into some rough places, they cast foure ancres out of the sterne, and wished that the day were come. 30 Nowe as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let downe the boat into the sea vnder a colour as though they would haue cast ankers out of the foreship, 31 Paul sayde vnto the Centurion and the souldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye can not be safe. 32 Then the souldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let it fall away. 33 And when it began to be day, Paul exhorted them all to take meate, saying, This is the fourteenth day that ye haue taried, and continued fasting, receiuing nothing: 34 Wherefore I exhort you to take meate: for this is for your safegarde: for there shall not an heare fall from the head of any of you. 35 And when he had thus spoken, hee tooke bread and gaue thankes to God, in presence of them all, and brake it, and began to eate. 36 Then were they all of good courage, and they also tooke meate. 37 Nowe we were in the ship in all two hundreth three score and sixteene soules. 38 And whe they had eaten ynough, they lightened the ship, & cast out the wheat into the sea.

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    2For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.

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  • Jas 3:5-7
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    5Euen so the tongue is a litle member, and boasteth of great things: beholde, howe great a thing a litle fire kindleth.

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    7For the whole nature of beasts, & of birds, and of creeping things, and things of the sea is tamed, and hath bene tamed of the nature of man.

  • Ps 104:25-26
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    25So is this sea great and wide: for therein are things creeping innumerable, both small beastes and great.

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  • Acts 27:39-41
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    39And when it was day, they knewe not the countrey, but they spied a certaine creeke with a banke, into the which they were minded (if it were possible) to thrust in the ship.

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    41And when they fell into a place, where two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stucke fast, and could not be moued, but the hinderpart was broken with the violence of the waues.

  • Ps 107:23-25
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    23They that goe downe to the sea in ships, and occupie by the great waters,

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  • Acts 27:13-15
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    13And when the Southerne winde blew softly, they supposing to atteine their purpose, loosed neerer, and sailed by Candie.

    14But anon after, there arose by it a stormy winde called Euroclydon.

    15And when the ship was caught, and could not resist the winde, we let her goe, and were caried away.

  • Jonah 1:11-13
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    11Then saide they vnto him, What shall we doe vnto thee, that the sea may be calme vnto vs? (for the sea wrought and was troublous)

    12And he said vnto them, Take me, and cast me into the sea: so shall the sea be calme vnto you: for I knowe that for my sake this great tempest is vpon you.

    13Neuerthelesse, the men rowed to bring it to the lande, but they coulde not: for the sea wrought, and was troublous against them.

  • Ezek 27:25-26
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    25The shippes of Tarshish were thy chiefe in thy marchandise, and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the middes of the sea.

    26Thy robbers haue brought thee into great waters: the East winde hath broken thee in the middes of the sea.

  • Mark 4:36-38
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    36And they left the multitude, and tooke him as he was in the shippe, and there were also with him other little shippes.

    37And there arose a great storme of winde, and the waues dashed into the shippe, so that it was now full.

    38And he was in the sterne asleepe on a pillow: and they awoke him, and saide to him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

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    4But the Lorde sent out a great winde into the sea, and there was a mightie tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

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    1The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the riuers of waters: he turneth it whithersoeuer it pleaseth him.

  • Acts 27:17-19
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    17Which they tooke vp and vsed all helpe, vndergirding the ship, fearing least they should haue fallen into Syrtes, and they strake saile, and so were caried.

    18The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship.

    19And the third day we cast out with our owne hands the tackling of the ship.

  • Ps 48:7
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    7As with an East winde thou breakest the shippes of Tarshish, so were they destroyed.

  • Ezek 27:29
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    29And all that handle the ore, the mariners and al the pilots of the sea shal come downe from their shippes, and shall stand vpon the land,

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    24And beholde, there arose a great tempest in the sea, so that the ship was couered with waues: but he was a sleepe.

  • Eccl 1:6
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    6The winde goeth toward the South, and compasseth towarde the North: the winde goeth rounde about, and returneth by his circuites.

  • Job 37:12
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  • Isa 33:23
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    23Thy cordes are loosed: they could not wel strengthen their maste, neither coulde they spread the saile: then shall the praye be deuided for a great spoile: yea, the lame shal take away the pray.

  • Ps 107:29-30
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    29He turneth the storme to calme, so that the waues thereof are still.

    30When they are quieted, they are glad, and hee bringeth them vnto the hauen, where they would be.

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    16And vpon all the shippes of Tarshish, and vpon all pleasant pictures.

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    27And Hiram sent with the nauie his seruats, that were mariners, and had knowledge of the sea, with the seruants of Salomon.

  • Acts 27:30
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    30Nowe as the mariners were about to flee out of the ship, and had let downe the boat into the sea vnder a colour as though they would haue cast ankers out of the foreship,

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  • Matt 8:27
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    27And the men marueiled, saying, What man is this, that both the windes and the sea obey him!

  • Acts 27:7
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    7And when we had sayled slowly many dayes, and scarce were come against Gnidum, because the winde suffered vs not, we sailed hard by Candie, neere to Salmone,

  • Prov 23:34
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    34And thou shalt bee as one that sleepeth in the middes of the sea, and as hee that sleepeth in the toppe of the maste.

  • Luke 8:23
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    23And as they sayled, he fell a sleepe, and there came downe a storme of winde on the lake, and they were filled with water, and were in ieopardie.

  • Eccl 8:4
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    4Where the word of ye King is, there is power, and who shall say vnto him, What doest thou?

  • Matt 14:32
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    32And assoone as they were come into the ship, the winde ceased.

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    9Thou rulest the raging of the sea: when the waues thereof arise, thou stillest them.