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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They lightened
Acts 27:18
And as we labored exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the the freight overboard;
Job 2:4
And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious 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 the food, and the body than the raiment?
Matthew 16:26
For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and 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, nor enter in, to take anything out his house:
Luke 12:23
For the life is more than the food, and the body than the raiment.
Philippians 3:7
Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.