Acts 27:38

After eating a hearty meal, they began to lighten the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.

Matthew 6:25

"For this reason I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, inquiring what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor yet for your body, inquiring what you shall wear. Is not your life more than its food, and your body than its clothing?

Matthew 16:26

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Acts 27:18-19

And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,

Hebrews 12:1

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before 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

And as we were being terribly battered by the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard,

What will it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

General references

let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor go in to get anything out of his house;

"For the life is more than food, and the body is more than clothes.

But what was once gain to me, that I have counted loss for Christ.