Luke 5:39

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

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  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men. 8 For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men. 9 And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you. 10 For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death: 11 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God, 12 You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother; 13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
  • Rom 4:11-12 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account; 12 And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.
  • Heb 11:1-2 : 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the sign that the things not seen are true. 2 For by it our fathers had God's approval.
  • Heb 11:39 : 39 And not one of these got the good things of the agreement, though they all had a good record through faith,

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