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Mark 2:21

New life and rebirth

19 Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast.

20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.

22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”

23 One Sabbath Jesus was passing through the grainfields, and His disciples began to pick the heads of grain as they walked along.

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BSB
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
KJV
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
WEB
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.
ASV
No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.
DARBY
No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old [stuff], and there is a worse rent.
BLB
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. and if otherwise, the filling up pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear happens.
ÅB
Ingen syr en lapp av ukrympet tøy på et gammelt klesplagg, ellers river den nye lapp et stykke med seg av det gamle, og riften blir verre.
OTB
"Ingen syr en lapp av ukrympet tøy på et gammelt plagg. Ellers vil den nye lappen rive bort fra det gamle, og revnen blir verre.
B1930
Ingen syr en lapp av ukrympet tøi på et gammelt klædebon, ellers river den nye lapp et stykke med sig av det gamle, og riften blir verre.

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Cross references

  • Matthew 9:16

    No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.

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  • 1 Corinthians 10:13

    No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

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  • Isaiah 57:16

    For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

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  • Psalms 103:13–15

    As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.

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