¹⁹ and on the third day with their own hands they threw the ship’s tackle overboard.

⁴ Then the accuser^[a] answered the Lord, “Skin for skin! All that the man has he will give for his life.

²⁴ For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will save it.^{(A) 25} For what does it profit them if they gain the whole world but lose or forfeit themselves?^(B)

³⁵ For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel,^[a] will save it.^{(A) 36} For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? ³⁷ Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

⁵ Then the sailors were afraid, and each cried to his god. They threw the cargo that was in the ship into the sea, to lighten it for them. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold of the ship and had lain down and was fast asleep.^(A)