Mark 2:22

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.

And {G2532} no man {G3762} putteth {G906} new {G3501} wine {G3631} into {G1519} old {G3820} bottles {G779}: else {G1490} the new {G3501} wine {G3631} doth burst {G4486} the bottles {G779}, and {G2532} the wine {G3631} is spilled {G1632}, and {G2532} the bottles {G779} will be marred {G622}: but {G235} new {G3501} wine {G3631} must be put {G992} into {G1519} new {G2537} bottles {G779}.

And no one puts new wine in old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine is for freshly prepared wineskins."

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.”

And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 9:17 (7 votes)

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

  • Psalms 119:83 (6 votes)

    ¶ For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; [yet] do I not forget thy statutes.

  • Psalms 119:80 (5 votes)

    ¶ Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.

  • Joshua 9:13 (4 votes)

    And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

  • Luke 5:37 (4 votes)

    And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

  • Luke 5:38 (4 votes)

    But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

  • Joshua 9:4 (4 votes)

    They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;