Verse 17

Neither do [men] put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 9:4 : 4 they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,
  • Job 32:19 : 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which hath no vent; Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst.
  • Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.