Acts 27:18
But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;
Acts 27:38
After eating a hearty meal they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.
Acts 27:19
and, on the third day, with their own hands they threw the ship's spare gear overboard.
Matthew 16:26
Why, what benefit will it be to a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give to buy back his life?
Luke 16:8
"And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.
Philippians 3:7-8
Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, surrounded as we are by such a vast cloud of witnesses, let us fling aside every encumbrance and the sin that so readily entangles our feet. And let us run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,