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Acts 27:34
Acts 27:34 is verse 34 of Acts chapter 27, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
King James Version
Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
World English Bible
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for not a hair will perish from any of your heads.”
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Acts 27:32–36 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
34 So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
35 After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
36 They were all encouraged and took some food themselves.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 15:32Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”
Mark 8:2“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
Mark 8:3If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”
Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
1 Timothy 5:23Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
1 Kings 1:52And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”
Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Luke 12:7And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Luke 21:18Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.