Acts 27:38

When they had eaten enough, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the grain overboard into the sea.

Jonah 1:5

The sailors were afraid, and each cried out to his god. They threw the ship’s cargo into the sea to lighten the load. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone down to the lowest part of the vessel and had stretched out and fallen into a deep sleep.

Job 2:4

“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

Matthew 6:25

“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing?

Matthew 16:26

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Acts 27:18-19

Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Acts 27:38

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

They lightened

General references

Mark 13:15

Luke 12:23

Philippians 3:7

Bible References

They lightened

Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.

“Skin for skin!” Satan answered the Lord. “A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life.

What will it benefit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

General references

A man on the housetop must not come down or go in to get anything out of his house.

For life is more than food and the body more than clothing.

But everything that was a gain to me, I have considered to be a loss because of Christ.