Luke 5:37

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Psalm 119:83

My life is wasting away like a dried up wineskin, but I have not forgotten your teachings.

Matthew 9:17

No one pours new wine into old wineskins. The wine would swell and burst the old skins. Then the wine would be lost, and the skins would be ruined. New wine must be put into new wineskins. Both the skins and the wine will then be safe.

Luke 5:36

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.

Luke 5:38

New wine must be put only into new wineskins.

Joshua 9:13

These cracked wineskins were new when we filled them, and our clothes and sandals are worn out because we have travelled so far.

Joshua 9:4

So they decided that some of their men should pretend to be messengers to Israel from a faraway country. The men put worn out bags on their donkeys and found some old wineskins that had cracked and had been sewn back together.