Matthew 9:16
No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made.
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- Gen 33:14 : 14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Ps 125:3 : 3 For the scepter of wickedness won't remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won't use their hands to do evil.
- Isa 40:11 : 11 He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.
- John 16:12 : 12 "I have yet many things to tell you, but you can't bear them now.
- 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 1 Brothers, I couldn't speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren't yet ready. Indeed, not even now are you ready,
- 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.
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18 John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and they came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don't fast?"
19 Jesus said to them, "Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can't fast.
20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
- Luke 5:34-396 verses93%
34 He said to them, "Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
35 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."
36 He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
37 No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
39 No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
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17 Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
- Matt 9:14-152 verses76%
14 Then John's disciples came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples don't fast?"
15 Jesus said to them, "Can the friends of the bridegroom mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
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13 These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."
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52 He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
- Deut 22:11-122 verses70%
11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
12 You shall make yourselves fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
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11 But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn't have on wedding clothing,
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33 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light.
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16 "No one, when he has lit a lamp, covers it with a container, or puts it under a bed; but puts it on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
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16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
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6 "Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
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10 and said to him, "Everyone serves the good wine first, and when the guests have drunk freely, then that which is worse. You have kept the good wine until now!"
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9 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
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39 He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
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62 But Jesus said to him, "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God."
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29 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel weeds, you root up the wheat with them.
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30 Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and tore it in twelve pieces.
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33 For John the Baptizer came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, 'He has a demon.'
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15 Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
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5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
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19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;
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23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also the coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout.
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18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
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2 The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, and the new wine will fail her.
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29 But I tell you that I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on, until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's Kingdom."
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9 What therefore will the lord of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the farmers, and will give the vineyard to others.
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14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
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29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and plunder his goods, unless he first bind the strong man? Then he will plunder his house.
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56 If the priest looks, and behold, the plague has faded after it is washed, then he shall tear it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:
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27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong man to plunder, unless he first binds the strong man; and then he will plunder his house.
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13 In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
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10 His disciples said to him, "If this is the case of the man with his wife, it is not expedient to marry."
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15 "Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
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16 "But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
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3 He said to them, "Take nothing for your journey--neither staffs, nor wallet, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats apiece.
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17 Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?
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48 which, when it was filled, they drew up on the beach. They sat down, and gathered the good into containers, but the bad they threw away.
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7 The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.