Acts 27:31

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Acts 27:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible

29 Fearing that we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daybreak.

30 Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.

31 But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”

32 So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

33 Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.

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Acts 27:11

But contrary to Paul’s advice, the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and by the owner of the ship.

Acts 27:21

After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.

Acts 27:42

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

Acts 27:43

But the centurion, wanting to spare Paul’s life, thwarted their plan. He commanded those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.

Acts 27:22

But now I urge you to keep up your courage, because you will not experience any loss of life, but only of the ship.

Acts 27:23

For just last night an angel of God, whose I am and whom I serve, stood beside me

Acts 27:24

and said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.’

Psalms 91:11

For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

Psalms 91:12

They will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

Jeremiah 29:12

Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.

Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

Ezekiel 36:36

Then the nations around you that remain will know that I, the LORD, have rebuilt what was destroyed, and I have replanted what was desolate. I, the LORD, have spoken, and I will do it.

Ezekiel 36:37

This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.

Luke 1:34

“How can this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

Luke 1:35

The angel replied, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.

Luke 4:9

Then the devil led Him to Jerusalem and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down from here.

Luke 4:10

For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You to guard You carefully;

Luke 4:11

and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

Luke 4:12

But Jesus answered, “It also says, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2:14

To this He called you through our gospel, so that you may share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.