Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
They lightened
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Bible References
They lightened
Acts 27:18
And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
Job 2:4
And Satan answered the LORD and said, Skin for skin, all that a man has he will give for his life.
Jonah 1:5
And the mariners were afraid, and everyone called unto his god, and they cast forth the vessels that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; he lay and was fast asleep.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, leaving behind all the weight of the sin which surrounds us, let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Mark 13:15
and let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein to take any thing out of his house;
Luke 12:23
The life is more than food, and the body is more than raiment.
Philippians 3:7
But those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ.