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Want to know what the Bible says about Ships? Here are 60 Bible verses about Ships from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Acts 27:30 NIV
In an attempt to escape from the ship, the sailors let the lifeboat down into the sea, pretending they were going to lower some anchors from the bow.
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Acts 27:41 NIV
But the ship struck a sandbar and ran aground. The bow stuck fast and would not move, and the stern was broken to pieces by the pounding of the surf.
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Acts 27:29 NIV
Fearing that we would be dashed against the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and prayed for daylight.
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Jonah 1:5 NIV
All the sailors were afraid and each cried out to his own god. And they threw the cargo into the sea to lighten the ship.
But Jonah had gone below deck, where he lay down and fell into a deep sleep.
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Isaiah 33:23 NIV
Your rigging hangs loose:
    The mast is not held secure,
    the sail is not spread.
Then an abundance of spoils will be divided
    and even the lame will carry off plunder.
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Ezekiel 27:7 NIV
Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was your sail
    and served as your banner;
your awnings were of blue and purple
    from the coasts of Elishah.
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Acts 27:19 NIV
On the third day, they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.
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Acts 27:40 NIV
Cutting loose the anchors, they left them in the sea and at the same time untied the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.
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Acts 27:32 NIV
So the soldiers cut the ropes that held the lifeboat and let it drift away.
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Ezekiel 27:6 NIV
Of oaks from Bashan
    they made your oars;
of cypress wood from the coasts of Cyprus
    they made your deck, adorned with ivory.
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Acts 27:11 NIV
But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship.
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Jonah 1:6 NIV
The captain went to him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call on your god! Maybe he will take notice of us so that we will not perish.”
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Ezekiel 27:8 NIV
Men of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen;
    your skilled men, Tyre, were aboard as your sailors.
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Ezekiel 27:27-29 NIV
27 Your wealth, merchandise and wares,
    your mariners, sailors and shipwrights,
your merchants and all your soldiers,
    and everyone else on board
will sink into the heart of the sea
    on the day of your shipwreck.
28 The shorelands will quake
    when your sailors cry out.
29 All who handle the oars
    will abandon their ships;
the mariners and all the sailors
    will stand on the shore.
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Acts 27:20 NIV
When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days and the storm continued raging, we finally gave up all hope of being saved.
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Acts 27:2-7 NIV
2 We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3 The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends so they might provide for his needs. 4 From there we put out to sea again and passed to the lee of Cyprus because the winds were against us. 5 When we had sailed across the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia. 6 There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board. 7 We made slow headway for many days and had difficulty arriving off Cnidus. When the wind did not allow us to hold our course, we sailed to the lee of Crete, opposite Salmone.
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Jonah 1:13 NIV
Instead, the men did their best to row back to land. But they could not, for the sea grew even wilder than before.
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John 6:19 NIV
When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were frightened.
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Luke 5:1-2 NIV
5 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, the people were crowding around him and listening to the word of God. 2 He saw at the water’s edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets.
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Psalm 104:26 NIV
There the ships go to and fro,
    and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there.
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