Acts 27:34 “So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not…”

Acts 27:34

So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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.”

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

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.

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;'

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.

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Cross references

“for this”

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

1 Timothy 5:23 · BSB

Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Matthew 15:32 · BSB

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 alo…

Philippians 2:5 · BSB

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

Mark 8:2 · BSB

“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

Mark 8:3 · BSB

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

“for there”

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

Matthew 10:30 · BSB

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

1 Kings 1:52 · BSB

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.”

Luke 21:18 · BSB

Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.

Luke 12:7 · BSB

And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

33Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.

35After 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.

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