Acts 27:38

WEB

³⁸When they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

KJV

³⁸And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

BSB

³⁸After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.

FBV

³⁸Once they'd had enough to eat, the crew made the ship lighter by throwing the supplies of wheat overboard.

Extra References

Jonah 1:5

⁵Then the mariners were afraid, and every man cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea to lighten the ship. But Jonah had gone down into the innermost parts of the ship and he was laying down, and was fast asleep.

Matthew 6:25

²⁵Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Acts 27:18-19

¹⁸As we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw things overboard. ¹⁹On the third day, they threw out the ship’s tackle with their own hands.

Matthew 16:26

²⁶For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Hebrews 12:1

¹Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Job 2:4

⁴Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.