Matthew 9:17 - Easy To Read Version

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.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Neither is new wine put in old wineskins; for if it is, the skins burst and are torn in pieces, and the wine is spilled and the skins are ruined. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Neither do men put new wine into old wine-skins: else the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins perish: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ No one pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the wineskins would burst, the wine would spill, and the wineskins would be ruined. Instead, people pour new wine into new wineskins so that both are kept safe.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Neither do they pour new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wineskins rupture, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are destroyed. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins. And so, both are preserved."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Neither do they put new wine into old bottles. Otherwise the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish. But new wine they put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

Matthew 9:17 Cross References

Job 32:19

I am like a bottle of new wine\par that hasn’t been opened.\par I am like a new wineskin\par that is ready to break open.\par

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 9:16

“When a person sews a patch over a hole on an old coat, he never uses a piece of cloth that is not yet shrunk. If he does, the patch will \{shrink and\} pull away from the coat. Then the hole will be worse.

Matthew 9:18

While Jesus was saying these things, a leader of the synagogue {\cf2\super [113]} came to him. The leader bowed down before Jesus and said, “My daughter has just died. But come and touch her with your hand, and she will live again.”

Mark 2:22

Also, people never pour new wine into old wine bags. {\cf2\super [32]} Why? Because the new wine will break the bags, and the wine will be ruined with the wine bags. People always put new wine into new wine bags.”

Luke 5:37

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.

Luke 5:38

People always put new wine into new wine bags.

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.