28 Bible Verses about sailing

In one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!' And every shipmaster and all passengers and sailors, and all who make their living by the sea, stood far off,

Look at the ships also; though they are so great and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.

Yet now I urge you to keep up your courage; for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

Sailing from there, we arrived the following day opposite Chios; and the next day we crossed over to Samos; and the day after that we came to Miletus.

So putting out to sea from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samothrace, and on the day following to Neapolis;

As much time had been lost, and the voyage was now dangerous because the fast had already gone by, Paul advised them,

but on taking leave of them he said, "I will return to you if God wills," and he set sail from Ephesus.

After three months we set sail in a ship which had wintered in the island, an Alexandrian ship, with the Twin Brothers as figurehead.

One day he got into a boat with his disciples, and he said to them, "Let us go over to the other side of the lake." So they set out.

and he saw heaven opened, and something descending, like a great sheet, let down by four corners to the earth.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

When we had parted from them and set sail, we came by a straight course to Cos, and the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

and said to them, "Men, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives."

and on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

And having found a ship crossing over to Phoenicia, we went aboard and set sail.

We sailed along it with difficulty and came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the lifeboat into the sea, on the pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,

When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

He answered them, "When it is evening, you say, 'It will be fair weather; for the sky is red.'

and he said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who sail with you.'

Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, "Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved."

When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.

But when the fourteenth night came, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors began to sense that they were approaching land.

We put out to sea from there and sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us.

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders; then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach.

But going ahead to the ship, we set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there; for so he had arranged, intending himself to go by land.

Because the harbor was not suitable to winter in, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.