28 Bible Verses about sailing

for in one hour is so great wealth laid waste. And every pilot, and all on board the ships, and the mariners, and all that traffic by sea, stood afar off,

Behold also the ships which are of so great bulk, and even when they are driven by hard winds, yet are turned about by a very small helm which way soever the pilot pleaseth.

However, I now exhort you to be of good courage: for there shall be no loss of any life among you, but only of the ship:

And sailing from thence we came the next day over against Chios; and the day following we arrived at Samos, and stopping at Trogyllium, we came the day after to Miletus.

Therefore we set sail from Troas, and came in a direct course to Samothracia, and the day following to Neapolis;

And as much time was spent, and sailing was now dangerous, (for the fast was now past,) Paul exhorted them,

saying, I must by all means keep the approaching feast at Jerusalem; but I will return to you again, God willing. So he sailed from Ephesus;

And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, that had wintered in the island, whose sign was Castor and Pollux.

And it came to pass on one of the days that He went into a ship, Himself and his disciples, and He said to them, Let us go over to the other side of the lake.

and some thing descending to him, like a great sheet tied at the four corners, and let down to the earth:

Now as it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Augustan cohort.

Now as soon as we had parted from them, and set sail, we came in a strait course to Coos, and the day following to Rhodes, and from thence to Patara.

saying, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage is like to be prejudicial and with much damage, not only of the lading and of the ship, but also of our lives.

and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship too.

And finding a ship there, which was passing over to Phenicia, we went aboard it, and set sail.

And passing it with difficulty, we came to a place called the Fair-havens, near to which was the city of Lasea.

But the mariners endeavouring to flee out of the ship, and having let down the boat into the sea, under pretence that they were going to stretch out anchors from the head of the ship,

And sailing through the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra a city of Lycia.

But He answered them, In the evening ye say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red:

Fear not, Paul, thou must be brought before Cesar, and behold God hath given thee all that are sailing with thee.

Paul said to the centurion, and to the soldiers, Unless these men stay in the ship ye cannot be saved.

But after long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not loosed from Crete, and so have saved this damage and loss.

And when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic sea, about the middle of the night the mariners thought they drew near to some land:

And when we departed from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, that he might not spend time in Asia: for he endeavoured, if it were possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.

And when they had taken up the anchors, they trusted the ship to the sea, at the same time, loosing the rudder-bands; and hoisting up the main-sail to the wind, they made to the shore.

But we went before to the ship, and sailed to Assos, being there to take in Paul: for so he had appointed, designing himself to go on foot.

And the haven not being commodious to winter in, the greater part advised to sail from thence, if they could possibly reach to Phenice to winter at that haven of Crete, which looks both to the south-west and north-west.