Acts 27:41-43
1599 Geneva Bible
41 And when they fell into a place, where [a]two seas met, they thrust in the ship: and the forepart stuck fast, and could not be moved, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
42 [b]Then the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them, when he had swam out, should flee away.
43 [c]But the Centurion willing to save Paul, stayed them from this counsel, and commanded that they that could swim, should cast themselves first into the sea, and go out to land:
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- Acts 27:41 So is Isthmus called, because the sea toucheth it on both sides.
- Acts 27:42 There is nowhere more unfaithfulness and unthankfulness than in unbelievers.
- Acts 27:43 God findeth even amongst his enemies them whose help he useth to preserve his.
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