Acts 27:18
Good News Translation
The violent storm continued, so on the next day they began to throw some of the ship's cargo overboard,

New Revised Standard Version
We were being pounded by the storm so violently that on the next day they began to throw the cargo overboard,

Contemporary English Version
The storm was so fierce that the next day they threw some of the ship's cargo overboard.

New American Bible
We were being pounded by the storm so violently that the next day they jettisoned some cargo,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship.

being.

Psalm 107:27 They were troubled, and reeled like a drunken man; and all their wisdom was swallowed up.

the next.

Acts 27:19,38 And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking of the ship. . . .

Jonah 1:5 But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea: and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

Philippians 3:7,8 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. . . .

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

Context
The Storm at Sea
17Which being taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship: and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they let down the sail yard and so were driven. 18And we, being mightily tossed with the tempest, the next day they lightened the ship. 19And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking of the ship.…
Cross References
Jonah 1:5
But the Lord sent a great wind to the sea: and a great tempest was raised in the sea, and the ship was in danger to be broken.

Acts 27:19
And the third day they cast out with their own hands the tacking of the ship.

Acts 27:38
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, casting the wheat into the sea.

Acts 27:17
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