Acts 27:18
And [because] we were violently battered by the storm, on the next [day] {they began} jettisoning [the cargo],
Jonah 1:5
And the mariners were afraid, and each cried out to his god. And they threw the {contents} that were in the merchant ship into the sea to lighten it for them. And [meanwhile] Jonah went down into the hold of the vessel and lay down and fell asleep.
Acts 27:38
And [when they] had eaten their fill of food, they lightened the ship [by] throwing the wheat into the sea.
Acts 27:19
and on the third [day] they threw overboard the gear of the ship with their own hands.
Psalm 107:27
They reeled and staggered like a drunkard, and {they were at their wits' end}.
Matthew 16:26
For what will a person be benefited if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what will a person give in exchange for his life?
Luke 16:8
And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.
Philippians 3:7-8
But whatever [things] were gain to me, these [things] I have considered loss because of Christ.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, [since] we also have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, putting aside every weight and {the sin that so easily ensnares us}, let us run with patient endurance the race that has been set before us,