Bible verse
So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
Acts 27:34 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 27.
30 Meanwhile, the sailors attempted to escape from the ship. Pretending to lower anchors from the bow, they let the lifeboat down into the sea.
31 But Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men remain with the ship, you cannot be saved.”
32 So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
33 Right up to daybreak, Paul kept urging them all to eat: “Today is your fourteenth day in constant suspense, without taking any food.
34 So for your own preservation, I urge you to eat something, because not a single hair of your head will be lost.”
35 After he had said this, Paul took bread and gave thanks to God in front of them all. Then he broke it and began to eat.
36 They were all encouraged and took some food themselves.
37 In all, there were 276 of us on board.
38 After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
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.
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.
ERV
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.
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