Mark 2:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

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Referenced Verses

  • Matt 9:16 : 16 And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.
  • 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 You have been put to no test but such as is common to man: and God is true, who will not let any test come on you which you are not able to undergo; but he will make with the test a way out of it, so that you may be able to go through it.
  • Ps 103:13-15 : 13 As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers. 14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
  • Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

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  • Matt 9:14-17
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    14Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

    15And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.

    16And no man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat, for by pulling away from the old, it makes a worse hole.

    17And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe.

  • Luke 5:34-39
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    34And Jesus said, Are you able to make the friends of the newly-married man go without food when he is with them?

    35But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

    36And he said to them, in a story, No man takes a bit of cloth from a new coat and puts it on to an old coat, for so the new coat would be damaged and the bit from the new would not go well with the old.

    37And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins, for fear that the skins will be burst by the new wine, and the wine be let out, and the skins come to destruction.

    38But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

    39And no man, having had old wine, has any desire for new, for he says, The old is better.

  • 22And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.

  • Mark 2:18-20
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    18And John's disciples and the Pharisees were taking no food: and they came and said to him, Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees go without food, but your disciples do not?

    19And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.

    20But the days will come when the husband will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.

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    11Do not have clothing made of two sorts of thread, wool and linen together.

    12On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

  • 13And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here.

  • 52And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

  • 11But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;

  • 16And let not him who is in the field go back to take his coat.

  • 10And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

  • 18And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.

  • 10And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;

  • 30And Ahijah took his new robe in his hands, parting it violently into twelve.

  • 13When he says, A new agreement, he has made the first agreement old. But anything which is getting old and past use will not be seen much longer.

  • 7The new wine is thin, the vine is feeble, and all the glad-hearted make sounds of grief.

  • 15A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame!

  • 33No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

  • 9Do not have your vine-garden planted with two sorts of seed: or all of it may become a loss, the seed you have put in as well as the increase.

  • 6Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

  • 13But if it has been damaged by a beast, and he is able to make this clear, he will not have to make payment for what was damaged.

  • 29But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.

  • 16No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

  • 2Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.

  • 23With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.

  • 19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

  • 11Loose ways and new wine take away wisdom.

  • 2The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.

  • 6Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

  • 5And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

  • 7He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.

  • 10And have put on the new man, which has become new in knowledge after the image of his maker;

  • 40And if any man goes to law with you and takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe from him.

  • 17So if any man is in Christ, he is in a new world: the old things have come to an end; they have truly become new.

  • 29But I say to you that from now I will not take of this fruit of the vine, till that day when I take it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

  • 5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • 14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

  • 9They were to go with common shoes on their feet, and not to take two coats.

  • 21For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • 22That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;