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
The next day, because we were being tossed so violently by the storm, they began to throw the cargo overboard.
Job 2:4
Satan answered the LORD, "Skin for skin! The man will give up everything that he owns in exchange for his health.
Jonah 1:5
At this point the mariners became terrified, and each man cried out to his gods. They began to throw the cargo into the sea in order to lighten the vessel. But Jonah had gone down into the vessel's hold, had lain down, and was fast asleep.
Matthew 6:25
"That's why I'm telling you to stop worrying about your life what you will eat or what you will drink or about your body what you will wear. Life is more than food, isn't it, and the body more than clothing?
Matthew 16:26
because what profit will a person have if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what can a person give in exchange for his life?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, having so vast a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, and throwing off everything that hinders us and especially the sin that so easily entangles us, let us keep running with endurance the race set before us,
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Mark 13:15
The one who's on his housetop must not come down and go into his house to take anything out of it,
Luke 12:23
because life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
Philippians 3:7
But whatever things were assets to me, these I now consider a loss for the sake of the Messiah.