Acts 27:32
Good News Translation
So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the boat and let it go.

New Revised Standard Version
Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat and set it adrift.

Contemporary English Version
The soldiers then cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it fall into the sea.

New American Bible
So the soldiers cut the ropes of the dinghy and set it adrift.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off.

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

Philippians 3:7-9 But the things that were gain to me, the same I have counted loss for Christ. . . .

Context
The Shipwreck
31Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved. 32Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat and let her fall off. 33And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and continued fasting, taking nothing.…
Cross References
John 2:15
And when he had made, as it were, a scourge of little cords, he drove them all out of the temple, the sheep also and the oxen: and the money of the changers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew.

Acts 27:31
Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers: Except these stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.

Acts 27:33
And when it began to be light, Paul besought them all to take meat, saying: This day is the fourteenth day that you have waited and continued fasting, taking nothing.

Acts 27:31
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