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The Shipwreck

Acts 27:34

In 9 translations

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.
LSV
for this reason I call on you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you will a hair fall from the head”;
YLT
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;'
DBY
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.
DRC
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.
GNV
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.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read μεταλαβεῖν (“to partake”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read προσλαβεῖν (“to take”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἀπὸ (“of”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ἐκ (“from”).
  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ἀπολεῖται.¶ (“will perish”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read πεσεῖται (“will fall”).
SBLGNT apparatus (3)

A comparison of published Greek editions. “Add” means after the SBLGNT wording; “omit” refers to that wording.

  • SBLGNT: μεταλαβεῖν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read μεταλαβεῖν; Robinson–Pierpont read προσλαβεῖν.
  • SBLGNT: ἀπὸ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀπὸ; Robinson–Pierpont read ἐκ.
  • SBLGNT: ἀπολεῖται. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀπολεῖται; Robinson–Pierpont read πεσεῖται.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς μεταλαβεῖν τροφῆς, τοῦτο γὰρ πρὸς τῆς ὑμετέρας σωτηρίας ὑπάρχει· οὐδενὸς γὰρ ὑμῶν θρὶξ ἀπὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς ἀπολεῖται.
RP2018
Διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς προσλαβεῖν τροφῆς· τοῦτο γὰρ πρὸς τῆς ὑμετέρας σωτηρίας ὑπάρχει· οὐδενὸς γὰρ ὑμῶν θρὶξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς πεσεῖται.
TR-Boyd
Διὸ παρακαλῶ ὑμᾶς προσλαβεῖν τροφῆς· τοῦτο γὰρ πρὸς τῆς ὑμετέρας σωτηρίας ὑπάρχει· οὐδενὸς γὰρ ὑμῶν θρὶξ ἐκ τῆς κεφαλῆς πεσεῖται.
SCR1894
διο παρακαλω υμας προσλαβειν τροφης τουτο γαρ προς της υμετερας σωτηριας υπαρχει ουδενος γαρ υμων θριξ εκ της κεφαλης πεσειται

Who and where

◆ Paul's Journey to Rome◆ Paul is shipwrecked by a storm

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Matthew 10:30And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
  • 1 Kings 1:52And 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 21:18Yet not even a hair of your head will perish.
  • Mark 8:2–3“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”
  • 1 Timothy 5:23Stop drinking only water and use a little wine instead, because of your stomach and your frequent ailments.
  • Luke 12:7And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So do not be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
  • Matthew 15:32Then 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…
  • Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:

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