Acts 27:34
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.
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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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.”
- ASV
- Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you.
- DARBY
- Wherefore I exhort you to partake of food, for this has to do with your safety; for not a hair from the head of any one of you shall perish.
- BLB
- Therefore I exhort you⁺ to take food, for this is for your⁺ preservation; for not one hair of your⁺ head will perish.”
- ÅB
- Derfor ber jeg dere ta føde til dere; dette hører med til deres redning; for det skal ikke falle et hår av hodet på noen iblant dere.
- OTB
- Nå oppfordrer jeg dere til å ta litt mat. Det er nødvendig for deres overlevelse. Ikke en eneste av dere vil miste et hår på hodet."
- B1930
- Derfor ber jeg eder ta føde til eder; dette hører med til eders redning; for det skal ikke falle et hår av hodet på nogen iblandt eder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 10:30
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Read in context1 Kings 1:52
And 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.”
Read in contextLuke 21:18
Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
Read in contextMark 8:2–3
“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
Read in contextLuke 12:7
And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
Read in context1 Timothy 5:23
Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
Read in contextPhilippians 2:5
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Read in contextMatthew 15:32
Then 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.”
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