Matthew 9:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

No man puts a piece of new cloth on an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up pulls from the garment, and the tear is made worse.

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  • Gen 33:14 : 14 Let my lord, I pray you, pass over before his servant, and I will lead on softly, according to the pace of the cattle that go before me and the children are able to endure, until I come to my lord in Seir.
  • Ps 125:3 : 3 For the scepter of the wicked shall not rest on the land allotted to the righteous, lest the righteous extend their hands to wrongdoing.
  • Isa 40:11 : 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
  • John 16:12 : 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
  • 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 And I, brothers, could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal, even as to infants in Christ. 2 I have fed you with milk, and not with solid food: for until now you were not able to bear it, neither yet now are you able.
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

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    18And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were fasting. And they came and said to him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?

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    20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.

    21No man sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment, otherwise the new piece pulls away from the old, and the tear is made worse.

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  • Luke 5:34-39
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    34And he said to them, Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them?

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    17Neither do men put new wine into old wineskins: else the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish: but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

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