Acts 27:38

when they had eat enough, they threw the wheat over board to ease the ship:

Matthew 6:25

I therefore direct you, not to be sollicitous, with regard to life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor with regard to the body, what clothes ye shall wear: Is not life it self a greater gift than food; and the body a greater gift than rayment?

Matthew 16:26

what advantage is it to a man to gain the whole world at the price of his life? or what would not a man pay down to preserve his life?

Acts 27:18-19

the next day the storm work'd the ship with great fury; they threw some of her lading over board:

Hebrews 12:1

Wherefore, since we are surrounded with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every incumbrance, and the sin which does so easily embarrass us, and let us pursue with constancy the course that is proposed to us:

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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

the next day the storm work'd the ship with great fury; they threw some of her lading over board:

what advantage is it to a man to gain the whole world at the price of his life? or what would not a man pay down to preserve his life?

General references

he that is upon the battlements let him not descend into the house, nor enter therein to take any thing away: let

the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

these advantages I renounce for Christ,