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 as we were violently tempesttossed, the next day they began to lighten the vessel;
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat; 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 will a man be profited, if be gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore let us also, being surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us;

General references

Mark 13:15
let not him that is on the housetop go down, nor enter, to take anything out of his house;
Luke 12:23
The life is more than its food, and the body than its raiment.
Philippians 3:7
But whatever things were gain to me, those for the sake of Christ I have counted but loss.