Acts 27:38

After eating a hearty meal they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat overboard.

Matthew 6:25

For this reason I charge you not to be over-anxious about your lives, inquiring what you are to eat or what you are to drink, nor yet about your bodies, inquiring what clothes you are to put on. Is not the life more precious than its food, and the body than its clothing?

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?

Acts 27:18-19

But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;

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,

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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

But, as the storm was still violent, the next day they began to lighten the ship;

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?

General references

let him who is on the roof not come down and enter the house to fetch anything out of it;

For life is a greater gift than food, and the body is a greater gift than clothing.

Yet all that was gain to me--for Christ's sake I have reckoned it loss.