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, even, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
Jonah 1:5
Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man to his god, and cast the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah had gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I say to 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 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
Wherefore, seeing we also are encompassed with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us 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 house-top not go down into the house, neither enter it, 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 what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.