The sailors were terrified and cried out for help, each one to his own god. Then, in order to lessen the danger, they threw the cargo overboard. Meanwhile, Jonah had gone below and was lying in the ship's hold, sound asleep.

This made the sailors so afraid of the LORD that they offered a sacrifice and promised to serve him.

Then in their trouble they called to the LORD, and he saved them from their distress.

You punished your people, LORD, and in anguish they prayed to you.

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

LORD, forgive your people Israel, whom you rescued from Egypt. Forgive us and do not hold us responsible for the murder of an innocent person.'

The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, "This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea."

Our God is in heaven; he does whatever he wishes.

He does whatever he wishes in heaven and on earth, in the seas and in the depths below.

"When the seven years had passed," said the king, "I looked up at the sky, and my sanity returned. I praised the Supreme God and gave honor and glory to the one who lives forever. "He will rule forever, and his kingdom will last for all time.

He looks on the people of the earth as nothing; angels in heaven and people on earth are under his control. No one can oppose his will or question what he does.

Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.

God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ.

All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and God chose us to be his own people in union with Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning.