28 Bible Verses about sailing

because in a single hour a wealth so vast has been destroyed!' All ship pilots and all who travel by sea, sailors and seafaring men, stood a long way off

Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases.

Even now I beg you to keep up your courage, for there will be no loss of life, but only of the ship.

On the next day we sailed from there and arrived off Chios. On the next day we crossed to Samos, and the next we reached Miletus.

So we sailed away from Troy and struck a bee line for Samothrace, and the next day on to Neapolis.

After considerable time had gone by, and navigation had become dangerous, and the fast was now over, Paul began to warn them

But as he bade them goodbye, he promised, "I will come back to you again, if it is God's will." Then he set sail from Ephesus.

Three months later, we set sail in an Alexandrian ship named The Twin Brothers, which had wintered at the island.

One day He got into a boat with His disciples, and He said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

and saw the sky opened, and something like a great sheet coming down, lowered to the earth by the four corners,

When it was decided that we should sail for Italy, they turned over Paul and some other prisoners to a colonel of the imperial regiment, named Julius.

When we had torn ourselves away from them, we struck a bee line for Cos, and the next day on to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

by saying, "Men, I see that this voyage is likely to be attended by disaster and heavy loss, not only to the cargo and the ship, but also to our lives."

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

There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and so we went aboard and sailed away.

and with difficulty coasted along it and finally reached a place called Fair Havens, near the town of Lasea.

Although the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had actually lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they were going to run out anchors from the bow,

and after sailing the whole length of the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we reached Myra in Lycia.

He answered,

and said, "Stop being afraid, Paul. You must stand before the Emperor; and listen! God has graciously given to you the lives of all who are sailing with you.'

Paul said to the colonel and his soldiers, "Unless these sailors remain on the ship, you cannot be saved."

After they had gone a long time without any food, then Paul got up among them and said: "Men, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete, and you would have escaped this disaster and loss.

It was now the fourteenth night and we were drifting on the Adriatic sea, when at midnight the sailors suspected that land was near.

After setting sail from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us,

For Paul's plan was to sail past Ephesus, so as not to lose any time in the province of Asia; for he was eager, if possible, to reach Jerusalem by Pentecost.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea; at the same time they undid the ropes of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail to the breeze they headed for the beach.

We had already gone on board the ship and set sail for Assos, where we were to take Paul on board; for it had been so arranged by him, as he intended to travel there on foot.

And as the harbor was not fit to winter in, the majority favored the plan to set sail from there and see if they could reach Phoenix and winter there, this being a harbor in Crete facing west-southwest and west-north-west.