Acts 27:38

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

Matthew 6:25

So I tell you, stop worrying about your life, as to what you will have to eat or drink, or about your body, as to what you will have to wear. Is not life worth more than food and the body worth more than clothes?

Matthew 16:26

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

Acts 27:18-19

The next day, because we were so violently beaten by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard,

Hebrews 12:1

Therefore, as we have so vast a crowd of spectators in the grandstands, let us throw off every impediment and the sin that easily entangles our feet, and run with endurance the race for which we are entered,

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

The next day, because we were so violently beaten by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard,

For what benefit will it be to a man, if he gains the whole world and loses his higher life? What price would a man pay to buy back his life?

General references

let him who is on the roof of his house not go down and go into the house to get anything out of it;

Your life is worth more than food, and your body more than clothes.

But for Christ's sake I have counted all that was gain to me as loss.