²² But take courage! None of you will lose your lives, even though the ship will go down.

³⁶ Then everyone was encouraged and began to eat—

²⁵ So take courage! For I believe God. It will be just as he said.

⁸ We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed. We are perplexed, but not driven to despair. ⁹ We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.

⁴ He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. ⁵ For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. ⁶ Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer.

The Savior of Israel

³⁴ “Please eat something now for your own good. For not a hair of your heads will perish.”

⁶ David was now in great danger because all his men were very bitter about losing their sons and daughters, and they began to talk of stoning him. But David found strength in the Lord his God.

⁴⁴ The others held on to planks or debris from the broken ship.^[a] So everyone escaped safely to shore.