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which when they had taken up, they used helps to undergird the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, they struck sail, and so were driven.
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And being exceedingly tossed by a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;
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and the third day we cast out with our own hands the ship's tackle.
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And 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.
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But after long fasting, Paul stood forth in the midst of them and said, "Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and should not have cast loose from Crete and suffered this harm and loss.
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And 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 only.
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For there stood by me this night the angel of God, to whom I belong and whom I serve,
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saying, `Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar. And lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.'
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Therefore sirs, be of good cheer, for I believe God, and that it shall be even as it was told to me.
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Nonetheless, we must be cast upon a certain island."
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But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven up and down in the Adriatic, about midnight the shipmen deemed that we were drawing near to some land.