Matthew 9:16

Catholic Public Domain Version

For no one would sew a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. For it pulls its fullness away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.

Cross References

Genesis 33:14

May it please my lord to go before his servant. And I will follow gradually in his steps, as much as I see my little ones to be able, until I arrive to my lord in Seir."

Psalm 125:3

The Lord has done great things for us. We have become joyful.

Isaiah 40:11

He will pasture his flock like a shepherd. He will gather together the lambs with his arm, and he will lift them up to his bosom, and he himself will carry the very young.

Matthew 9:15

And Jesus said to them: "How can the sons of the groom mourn, while the groom is still with them? But the days will arrive when the groom will be taken away from them. And then they shall fast.

Matthew 9:17

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."

Mark 2:21

No one sews a patch of new cloth onto an old garment. Otherwise, the new addition pulls away from the old, and the tear becomes worse.

Luke 5:36

Then he also made a comparison for them: "For no one sews a patch from a new garment onto an old garment. Otherwise, he both disrupts the new one, and the patch from the new one does not join together with the old one.

John 16:12

I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now.

1 Corinthians 13:13

But for now, these three continue: faith, hope, and charity. And the greatest of these is charity.

2 Corinthians 9:12

For the ministration of this office not only supplies whatever the saints need, but also abounds through many thanksgivings in the Lord.