Mark 2:21
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.
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Referenced Verses
- Matt 9:16 : 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.
- 1 Cor 10:13 : 13 No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
- Ps 103:13-15 : 13 Like a father has compassion on his children, So Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him. 14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
- Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
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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.
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.
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."
- 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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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."
- Mark 2:18-203 verses77%
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.
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- Deut 22:11-122 verses72%
11 You shall not wear a mixed stuff, wool and linen together.
12 You shall make you fringes on the four borders of your cloak, with which you cover yourself.
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13 and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason 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."
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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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16 Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.
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18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
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10 You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
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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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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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7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
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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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33 "No man, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar, nor under a basket, but on a stand, that those who enter in may see the light.
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9 You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which you have sown, and the increase of the vineyard.
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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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13 If it is torn in pieces, let him bring it for evidence. He shall not make good that which was torn.
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29 "But he said, 'No, lest perhaps while you gather up the darnel, you root up the wheat with them.
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2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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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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2 The threshing floor and the winepress won't feed them, And the new wine will fail her.
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6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."
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5 and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy.
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7 With which the reaper doesn't fill his hand, Nor he who binds sheaves, his bosom.
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10 and have put on the new man, that is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,
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40 If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also.
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17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
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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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5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; For it is cut off from your mouth.
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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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9 but to wear sandals, and not put on two tunics.
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21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; And drowsiness clothes them in rags.
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22 that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;