Mariners (Sailors)

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Bible verses about “Mariners (Sailors)”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• 1 Kings 9:27And Hiram sent in the navy his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon.
• 2 Chronicles 8:18And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.
• Isaiah 42:10Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that is therein; the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.
• Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
• Psalms 107:23They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
• Psalms 107:24These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
• Psalms 107:25For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
• Psalms 107:26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
• Psalms 107:27They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits’ end.
• Psalms 107:28Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
• Psalms 107:29He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
• Psalms 107:30Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
• Jonah 1:5Then 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.
• Acts 27:17Which 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 27:18And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
• Acts 27:19And the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
• Acts 27:20And 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 27:21But 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.
• Acts 27:22And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of any man’s life among you, but of the ship.
• Acts 27:23For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
• Acts 27:24Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Cesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
• Acts 27:25Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.
• Acts 27:26Howbeit we must be cast upon a certain island.
• Acts 27:27But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country;
• Acts 27:28And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
• Acts 27:29Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
• Acts 27:30And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under colour as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship,
• Acts 27:31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.
• Acts 27:32Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
• Acts 27:33And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing.
• Acts 27:34Wherefore 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.
• Acts 27:35And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
• Acts 27:36Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.
• Acts 27:37And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
• Acts 27:38And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
• Acts 27:39And when it was day, they knew not the land: but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
• Acts 27:40And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
• Acts 27:41And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
• Acts 27:42And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.
• Acts 27:43But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose; and commanded that they which could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and get to land: