Verse 18
The next day, because we were violently battered by the storm, they began throwing the cargo overboard,
Referenced Verses
- Jonah 1:5 : 5 The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship’s cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.
- Acts 27:38 : 38 When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
- Acts 27:19 : 19 and on the third day they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.
- Ps 107:27 : 27 They swayed and staggered like a drunk, and all their skill proved ineffective.
- Matt 16:26 : 26 For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
- Luke 16:8 : 8 The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.
- Phil 3:7-8 : 7 But these assets I have come to regard as liabilities because of Christ. 8 More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things– indeed, I regard them as dung!– that I may gain Christ,
- Heb 12:1 : 1 The Lord’s Discipline Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,