28 Bible Verses about sailing

In a single hour your vast wealth vanished.' Every ship's captain and all who sail to any port, and sailors, and all who get their living from the sea, stood at a distance,

Again, think of ships. Large as they are, and even when driven by fierce winds, they are controlled by a very small rudder and steered in whatever direction the man at the helm may determine.

Yet, even as things are, I urge you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you--only the ship.

The day after we had sailed from there, we arrived off Chios, touched at Samos the following day, and the next day reached Miletus;

Accordingly we set sail from Troas, and ran before the wind to Samothrace, reaching Neapolis the next day.

This had taken a considerable time, and sailing was already dangerous, for the Fast was already over; and so Paul gave this warning.

As he took his leave, "I will come back again to you, please God," and then set sail from Ephesus.

After three months, we set sail in a ship that had wintered in the island. She was an Alexandrian vessel, and had the Twin Sons of Zeus for her figure-head.

One day about that time, Jesus got into a boat with his disciples and said to them: "Let us go across the lake."

And saw that the heavens were open, and that something like a great sail was descending, let down by its four corners towards the earth.

As it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were put in charge of a Captain of the Augustan Guard, named Julius.

When we had torn ourselves away and had set sail, we ran before the wind to Cos; the next day we came to Rhodes, and from there to Patara,

"My friends," he said, "I see that this voyage will be attended with injury and much damage, not only to the cargo and the ship, but to our own lives also."

And, on the following day, threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

Where we found a ship crossing to Phoenicia, and went on board and set sail.

And with difficulty, by keeping close in shore, we reached a place called 'Fair Havens,' near which was the town of Lasea.

The sailors wanted to leave the ship, and had lowered the boat, on pretense of running out anchors from the bows,

And, after crossing the sea of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.

But Jesus answered: [ "In the evening you say 'It will be fine weather, for the sky is as red as fire.'

'Have no fear, Paul; you must appear before the Emperor, and God himself has given you the lives of all your fellow-voyagers.'

When Paul said to the Roman Officer and his men: "Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved."

It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said: "My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.

It was now the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting about in the Adriatic Sea, when, about midnight, the sailors began to suspect that they were drawing near land.

Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us;

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so as to avoid spending much time in Roman Asia. He was making haste to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the Festival at the close of the Harvest.

Then they cast off, and abandoned the anchors, and at the same time unlashed the gear of the steering oars, hoisted the foresail to the wind, and made for the beach.

We started first, went on board ship, and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. This was by his own arrangement, as he intended to go by land himself.

And, as the harbor was not a suitable one to winter in, the majority were in favor of continuing the voyage, in hope of being able to reach Phoenix, and winter there. Phoenix was a Cretan harbor, open to the north-east and south-east.