A moment in scripture
Acts 27:18
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And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
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The surrounding passage
- Acts 27:16
And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat:
- Acts 27:17
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.
- Acts 27:19
And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
- Acts 27:20
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.