"And the third {day} we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship." — Acts 27:19

Acts 27:19 · KJV

“And the third {day} we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.”

— Acts 27:19

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next {day} they lightened the ship;

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on {us}, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

Acts 27 — Context

Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven.

And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next {day} they lightened the ship;

And the third {day} we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.

And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on {us}, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.

But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss.

Cross References

Job 2:4

And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.

Luke 9:24-25

For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.

Jonah 1:5

Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that {were} in the ship into the sea, to lighten {it} of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.

Mark 8:35-37

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?