28 Bible Verses about sailing

And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off

Look at ships too; for all their size and speed under stiff winds, they are turned by a tiny rudder wherever the mind of the steersman chooses.

I now bid you cheer up. There will be no loss of life, only of the ship.

Sailing thence on the following day we arrived off Chios; next day we crossed over to Samos, and [after stopping at Trogyllium] we went on next day to Miletus.

Setting sail then from Troas we ran straight to Samothrace and on the following day to Neapolis.

By this time it was far on in the season and sailing had become dangerous (for the autumn Fast was past), so Paul warned them thus:

he said goodbye to them, telling them, "I will come back to you, if it is the will of God." Then, sailing from Ephesus,

We set sail, after three months, in an Alexandrian ship, with the Dioscuri on her figure-head, which had wintered at the island.

It happened on one of these days that he embarked in a boat alone with his disciples and said to them, "Let us cross to the other side of the lake." So they set sail.

He saw heaven open and a vessel coming down, like a huge sheet lowered by the four corners to the earth,

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

When we had torn ourselves away from them and set sail, we made a straight run to Cos, next day to Rhodes, and thence to Patara;

"Men," said he, "I see this voyage is going to be attended with hardship and serious loss not only to the cargo and the ship but also to our own lives."

while two days later they threw the ship's gear overboard with their own hands;

as we found a ship there bound for Phoenicia, we went on board and set sail.

and coasting along it with great difficulty we reached a place called Fair Havens, not far from the town of Lasea.

The sailors tried to escape from the ship. They had even lowered the boat into the sea, pretending they were going to layout anchors from the bow,

then, sailing over the Cilician and Pamphylian waters, we came to Myra in Lycia.

He replied,

saying, 'Have no fear, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And God has granted you the lives of all your fellow-voyagers.'

when Paul said to the officer and the soldiers, "You cannot be saved unless these men stay by the ship."

When they had gone without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, "Men, you should have listened to me and spared yourselves this hardship and loss by refusing to set sail from Crete.

When the fourteenth night arrived, we were drifting about in the sea of Adria, when the sailors about midnight suspected land was near.

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

This was because Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, to avoid any loss of time in Asia; he wanted to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

So the anchors were cut away and left in the sea, while the crew unlashed the ropes that tied the rudders, hoisted the foresail to the breeze, and headed for the beach.

Now we had gone on beforehand to the ship and set sail for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. This was his own arrangement, for he intended to travel by land.

and, as the harbour was badly placed for wintering in, the majority proposed to set sail and try if they could reach Phoenix and winter there (Phoenix is a Cretan harbour facing S.W. and N.W.).