Luke 5:37 - Easy To Read Version

³⁷ People never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [104]} Why? Because the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will spill out and the wine bags will be ruined.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the fresh wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be ruined (destroyed).

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be spilled, and the skins will perish.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would burst the wineskins, the wine would spill, and the wineskins would be ruined.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine ruptures the wineskins, and it will be poured out, and the wineskins will be lost.

Luke 5:37 Cross References

Psalm 119:83

Even when I am like a dried wineskin\par on the trash pile,\par I will not forget your laws.\par

Matthew 9:17

Also, people never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [112]} Why? Because the old bags will break. The wine will spill, and the wine bags will be ruined. But people always pour new wine into new wine bags. Then the wine and the wine bags will continue to be good.”

Luke 5:36

Jesus told them this story: “No person takes cloth off a new coat to cover a hole on an old coat. Why? Because he ruins the new coat, and the cloth from the new coat will not be the same as the old cloth.

Luke 5:38

People always put new wine into new wine bags.

Joshua 9:13

See our wineskins! When we left home they were new and filled with wine. Now you can see that they are cracked and old. See our clothes and sandals! You can see that the long journey has almost destroyed the things we wear.”

Joshua 9:4

So those people decided to try to fool the people of Israel. This was their plan: They gathered together old wineskins [45] that were cracked and broken. They put these old wine skins on the backs of their animals. They put old pieces of cloth on their animals to look like they had traveled from far away.