28 Bible Verses about sailing
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for in one hour are so great riches made a desolation. And every sailing-master and every one who sails to the place, and sailors and all that work on the sea, shall stand afar off,
behold also the ships, though of so great size and driven by powerful winds, are directed by a very small helm wherever the will of the pilot chooses;
And now I advise you to be of good courage; for there shall be no loss of a life of you, but only of the ship.
and sailing thence, on the next day we came opposite to Chios, and in another day we touched at Samos, and stopping at Trogylium, on the day following we came to Miletus.
AND sailing from Troas we came in a direct course to Samothracia, and on the next day to Neapolis,
But some time being spent and navigation not being safe, because the fast had already passed by, Paul advised,
but taking leave of them and saying, I will return to you again, if God will, he sailed from, Ephesus,
And after three months we sailed away in an Alexandrian vessel, that had wintered in the island, with the sign of Castor and Pollux.
AND on one of those days both he and his disciples went into the ship; and he said to them, Let us cross over to the other side of the lake. And they set sail;
and he beheld heaven opened, and a certain vessel like a great sheet descending, let down by four corners to the earth,
AND when it was determined that we should sail to Italy, they delivered Paul and certain other prisoners to a centurion by the name of Julius, of the cohort of Augustus.
AND when we had torn ourselves from them we set sail, and going in a straight course came to Cos, and on the next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.
saying to them, Men, I see that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and ship, but also of our lives.
and on the third day with our own hands we cast overboard the furniture of the ship.
and sailing by it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which is the city Lasea.
And the sailors seeking to escape from the ship, and letting down the boat into the sea, with the pretence that they were about to put out anchors from the fore part of the ship,
and sailing through the sea by Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia;
But he answered and said to them, When it is evening you say, It will be fair weather for the sky is red;
and said, Fear not, Paul; you must stand before Caesar, and behold, God has given you all that sail with you.
Paul said to the centurion and soldiers, Unless these continue in the ship you cannot be saved.
Then there having been long abstinence from food, Paul stood up in the midst of them and said, You ought, men, taking my advice, not to have sailed from Crete, and to have saved this injury and loss.
And on the fourteenth night, when we were borne along in the Adriatic, at about midnight the sailors suspected that some land was approaching them.
For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, that it might not be necessary for him to spend a long time in Asia; for he hastened, if it was possible for him, to be at Jerusalem at the day of Pentecost.
And taking up the anchors, they committed [the ship] to the sea, loosening at the same time the fastenings of the rudder and raising the top sail to the wind, they bore down towards the shore.
And we going before by ship sailed to Assos, being about to take in Paul at that place; for so had he appointed, being about to go on foot himself.
And the harbor being inconvenient to winter in, the greater part advised to depart thence, and, if they were able, to come to Phenice to winter, a harbor of Crete, which opens to the South and Southwest.