◄ Acts 27:42 ►
The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.
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Acts 12:19
After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

Acts 27:24
and said, 'Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar. And look, God has granted you the lives of all who sail with you.'

Acts 27:41
But the vessel struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was being broken up by the pounding of the waves.

2 Corinthians 11:26
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,


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And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.


Psalm 74:20
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.



Proverbs 12:10
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.



Ecclesiastes 9:3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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