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the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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New Living Translation

Acts 27:34

"Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fasting;   Mariners (Sailors);   Paul;   Prophecy;   Trouble;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Life, Natural;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Crete;   Euroclydon;   Julius;   Melita;   Ship;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Centurion;   Providence;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Health;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Italy;   Nero;   Ships and Boats;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Hair;   Salvation Save Saviour;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Meat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Melita;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fall;   Games;   Hair;   Health;   Lycia;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Now I beg you to eat something. You need it to stay alive. None of you will lose even one hair off your heads."
Revised Standard Version
Therefore I urge you to take some food; it will give you strength, since not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore I praye you to take meate: for this no dout is for youre helth: for ther shall not an heere fall fro the heed of eny of you.
Hebrew Names Version
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for there will not a hair perish from the head of any of you."
International Standard Version
So I urge you to eat something, for it will help you survive, since none of you will lose a hair from his head."1 Kings 1:52; Matthew 10:30; Luke 12:7; 21:18;">[xr]
New American Standard Bible
"Therefore, I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your survival, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."
New Century Version
Now I beg you to eat something. You need it to stay alive. None of you will lose even one hair off your heads."
Update Bible Version
Therefore I urge 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.
Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore I pray you to take [some] food; for this is for your health: for there shall not a hair fall from the head of any of you.
English Standard Version
Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you."
World English Bible
Therefore I beg you to take some food, for this is for your safety; for there will not a hair perish from the head of any of you."
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Therefore I exhort you to take food; for this is for your preservation; for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.
Weymouth's New Testament
I therefore strongly advise you to take some food. This is essential for your safety. For not a hair will perish from the head of any one of you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Wherfor Y preie you to take mete, for youre helthe; for of noon of you the heer of the heed schal perische.
English Revised Version
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.
Berean Standard Bible
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost."
Contemporary English Version
I beg you to eat something. Your lives depend on it. Do this and not one of you will be hurt."
Amplified Bible
"So I urge you to eat some food, for this is for your survival; for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.
Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore I advise you to take some food; you need it for your own survival. For not one of you will lose so much as a hair from his head."
Darby Translation
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.
Etheridge Translation
Wherefore I beseech you receive meat for the establishment of your lives; for a hair of the head of one of you will not perish.
Murdock Translation
Therefore I entreat you, to take food for the sustenance of your life; for not a hair from the head of any of you, will perish.
King James Version (1611)
Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat, for this is for your health: for there shall not an haire fall from the head of any of you.
New Life Bible
You must eat. It will give you strength. Not one of you will lose a hair from your head."
New Revised Standard
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for it will help you survive; for none of you will lose a hair from your heads."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore I exhort you to take meate: for this is for your safegarde: for there shall not an heare fall from the head of any of you.
George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore, I pray you to take some food for the sustenance of your life; for not a hair shall be lost from the head of any of you.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore, I beseech you to take some food, - for, this, lays a foundation for your safety; for, of no one of you, shall a hair of the head perish.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Wherefore, I pray you to take some meat for your health’s sake: for there shall not an hair of the head of any of you perish.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherfore, I pray you to take meate, for this no doubt is for your health: for there shall not an heere fall from the head of any of you.
Good News Translation
I beg you, then, eat some food; you need it in order to survive. Not even a hair of your heads will be lost."
Christian Standard Bible®
So I urge you to take some food. For this is for your survival, since none of you will lose a hair from your head.”
King James Version
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.
Lexham English Bible
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is necessary for your preservation. For not a hair from your head will be lost."
Literal Translation
Because of this I beg you to take of food, for this is to your deliverance, for not a hair of your head shall perish.
Young's Literal Translation
wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore I praye you to take meate, for youre health: for there shal not one heer fall from the heade of eny of you.
Mace New Testament (1729)
therefore, pray, take something to recruit your strength: and be assur'd every one of you shall be preserv'd."
New English Translation
Therefore I urge you to take some food, for this is important for your survival. For not one of you will lose a hair from his head."
New King James Version
Therefore I urge you to take nourishment, for this is for your survival, since not a hair will fall from the head of any of you."
Simplified Cowboy Version
Eat something now. You'll need it to survive the coming days. But remember, no one is going to die."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your preservation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."
Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore I encourage you to take some food, for this is for your salvation, for not a hair from the head of any of you will perish."

Contextual Overview

21 No one had eaten for a long time. Finally, Paul called the crew together and said, "Men, you should have listened to me in the first place and not left Crete. You would have avoided all this damage and loss. 22 But take courage! None of you will lose your lives, even though the ship will go down. 23 For last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me, 24 and he said, ‘Don't be afraid, Paul, for you will surely stand trial before Caesar! What's more, God in his goodness has granted safety to everyone sailing with you.' 25 So take courage! For I believe God. It will be just as he said. 26 But we will be shipwrecked on an island." 27 About midnight on the fourteenth night of the storm, as we were being driven across the Sea of Adria, the sailors sensed land was near. 28 They dropped a weighted line and found that the water was 120 feet deep. But a little later they measured again and found it was only 90 feet deep. 29 At this rate they were afraid we would soon be driven against the rocks along the shore, so they threw out four anchors from the back of the ship and prayed for daylight. 30 Then the sailors tried to abandon the ship; they lowered the lifeboat as though they were going to put out anchors from the front of the ship.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for this: Matthew 15:32, Mark 8:2, Mark 8:3, Philippians 2:5, 1 Timothy 5:23

for there: 1 Kings 1:52, Matthew 10:30, Luke 12:7, Luke 21:18

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 14:45 - there shall not 2 Samuel 14:11 - not one hair 1 Kings 18:41 - Get Daniel 3:27 - nor was Acts 27:10 - I perceive Acts 27:22 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 27:24
"But are you really my son Esau?" he asked. "Yes, I am," Jacob replied.
Genesis 27:28
"From the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth, may God always give you abundant harvests of grain and bountiful new wine.
1 Samuel 30:4
they wept until they could weep no more.
Proverbs 1:31
Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.
Proverbs 19:3
People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord .
Hebrews 12:17
You know that afterward, when he wanted his father's blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he begged with bitter tears.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore I pray you to take some meat,.... To sit down composedly, and eat meat cheerfully and freely:

for this is for your health; the Alexandrian copy reads, "for our health"; it was for the health of them all, that they might be better able to bear the shock and fatigue of the shipwreck, and be in better spirits, and in a better capacity to help themselves, and one another:

for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you; a proverbial phrase, expressing the utmost safety of their lives, and therefore might cheerfully eat their food, and rest themselves, and be satisfied. To dream of shaving the hair, portended shipwreck to sailors; nor was it lawful for any to pare his nails, or cut off his hair, but in a storm; to which custom, some think, the apostle here alludes w; see 1 Samuel 14:45.

w Kirchman. de funer. Rom. l. 2. c. 14. p. 212, 213.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not a hair fall from the head ... - A proverbial expression, denoting “that they would be preserved safe; that none of them would be lost, and that “in their persons they should not experience the least damage,” 1 Kings 1:52; 1 Samuel 14:45.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 34. A hair fall from the head — A proverbial expression for, ye shall neither lose your lives nor suffer any hurt in your bodies, if ye follow my advice.


 
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