Acts 27:18

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next [day] they lightened the ship;

And {G1161} we {G2257} being exceedingly {G4971} tossed with a tempest {G5492}, the next {G1836} day they lightened the ship {G1546}{G4160};

But because we were fighting such heavy weather, the next day they began to jettison non-essentials;

We were tossed so violently that the next day the men began to jettison the cargo.

And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard;

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Cross-References

  • Jonah 1:5 (6 votes)

    Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that [were] in the ship into the sea, to lighten [it] of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

  • Acts 27:38 (5 votes)

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

  • Hebrews 12:1 (3 votes)

    ¶ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

  • Acts 27:19 (3 votes)

    And the third [day] we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

  • Philippians 3:7 (2 votes)

    But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.

  • Philippians 3:8 (2 votes)

    Yea doubtless, and I count all things [but] loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them [but] dung, that I may win Christ,

  • Matthew 16:26 (2 votes)

    For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?