Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and began praying for daylight to come.

Meanwhile, the sailors had begun trying to escape from the ship. They lowered the lifeboat into the sea and pretended that they were going to lay out the anchors from the bow.

After he said this, he took some bread, thanked God in front of everyone, broke it, and began to eat.

After they had eaten all they wanted, they began to lighten the ship by dumping its cargo of wheat into the sea.

Then we weighed anchor and came to Rhegium. A day later, a south wind began to blow, and on the second day we came to Puteoli.

Instead, we speak about God's wisdom in a hidden secret, which God destined before the world began for our glory.

Now finish what you began, so that your eagerness to do so may be matched by your eagerness to complete it.

I am convinced of this, that the one who began a good action among you will bring it to completion by the Day of the Messiah Jesus.

He saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our own accomplishments, but according to his own purpose and the grace that was given to us in the Messiah Jesus before time began.

which is based on the hope of eternal life that God, who cannot lie, promised before the world began.

I began to cry bitterly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or look inside it.

They said, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, because you have taken your great power and have begun to rule.

Every ship's captain, everyone who traveled by ship, sailors, and everyone who made a living from the sea stood far away. When they saw the smoke rising from the fire that consumed her, they began to cry out, "What city was like that great city?"