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Mark 2:21

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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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Mark 2:21 in other translations

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.

Mark 2:21 · American Standard Version

Mark 2:21 in context

  1. 19Jesus 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.
  2. 20But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
  3. 21No 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.
  4. 22No 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.”
  5. 23He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.