28 Bible Verses about sailing

for in a single hour this vast wealth has been destroyed!' All navigators and all who travel by sea, sailors and sea-faring men, stood a long way off

Even ships, great as they are, and driven by strong winds, are steered with a very small rudder wherever the pilot pleases.

Even now, I beg 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 off Chios on the following day. On the next we crossed to Samos, and on the next we reached Miletus.

So we sailed from Troas, and ran a straight course to Samothrace, and next day to Neapolis.

As a great deal of time had now passed, and navigation had become dangerous, for the autumn fast was already over, Paul began to warn them.

He bade them goodbye, saying, "I will come back to you again if it is God's will." Then he sailed from Ephesus.

Three months later, we sailed on an Alexandrian ship named the Dioscuri, which had wintered at the island.

It happened one day that he got into a boat with his disciples, and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake."

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

When it was decided that we were to sail for Italy, Paul and some other prisoners were turned over to an officer of the Imperial regiment, named Julius.

When the parting was over and we had sailed, we made a straight run to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara.

"Gentlemen," he said, "I see that this voyage is likely to end in disaster and heavy loss, not only to ship and cargo but to our own lives also."

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

There we found a ship bound for Phoenicia, and we went on board and sailed on it.

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

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

and after traversing the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we reached Myra in Lycia.

He answered,

and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul! You must stand before the emperor, and see! God has given you the lives of all the people who are on the ship with you.'

but Paul said to the officers and the soldiers, "You cannot be saved unless these men stay on board."

Then, when they had gone a long time without food, Paul got up among them, and said, "Gentlemen, you ought to have listened to me and not to have sailed from Crete and incurred this disaster and loss.

It was the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting through the Adriatic when about midnight the sailors began to suspect that there was land ahead.

Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, as the wind was against us,

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to lose any time in Asia, for he was hurrying to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of the Harvest Festival.

So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time they undid the lashings of the steering oars, and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they made for the beach.

We had already gone on board the ship and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there, for that was the arrangement he had made, as he intended to travel there by land.

and as the harbor was not fit to winter in, the majority favored putting to sea again, in the hope of being able to reach and winter in Phoenix, a harbor in Crete facing west-south-west and west-north-west.