Luke 5:36

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Jesus then told them these sayings: No one uses a new piece of cloth to patch old clothes. The patch would shrink and make the hole even bigger.

Cross References

Leviticus 19:19

Breed your livestock animals only with animals of the same kind, and don't plant two kinds of seed in the same field or wear clothes made of different kinds of material.

Luke 5:35

But the time will come when he will be taken from them. Then they will go without eating.”

Luke 5:37

No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The new wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined.

2 Corinthians 6:16

Do idols belong in the temple of God? We are the temple of the living God, as God himself says, “I will live with these people and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

Deuteronomy 22:11

When you weave cloth for clothing, you can use thread made of flax or wool, but not both together.