Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.

Bible References

They lightened

Acts 27:18
And we being tossed violently by the storm, they were successively making the casting out,
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say unto you, Be not solicitous for your soul what you may eat, nor for your body what you may put on. Is not your soul more valuable than food, and your body than raiment?
Matthew 16:26
For what is a man profited, if he may gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

General references

Mark 13:15
and let not the one on the housetop come down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house:
Luke 12:23
The soul is more than food, and the body more than raiment.
Philippians 3:7
Those things which were gained to me, these I counted loss for the sake of Christ.