²² Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.

³⁶ Then they all cheered up, and they also took food.

²⁵ Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

⁸ We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

⁹ pursued, yet not forsaken; struck down, yet not destroyed;

⁴ who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

⁵ For as the sufferings of Christ abound to us, even so our comfort also abounds through Christ.

⁶ But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

⁴⁴ and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So it happened that they all escaped safely to the land.

³⁴ 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."

³¹ Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, "Unless these stay in the ship, you can't be saved."

¹¹ The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, "Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome."

¹ But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: Don't be afraid, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name, you are mine.

² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.

⁷ He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

²⁹ When they cast down, you shall say, 'be lifted up.' He will save the humble person.

³⁰ He will even deliver him who is not innocent; Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

⁴ Satan answered Yahweh, and said, "Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has will he give for his life.

² Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land: yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

⁶ David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.