Mark 2:21
Mark chapter 2 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.
KJV
King James Version · 1611No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.
Context
v.20But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then will they fast in that day.
v.21This passage
v.22And no man putteth new wine into old wine-skins; else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine perisheth, and the skins: but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Matthew 9:16
And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
- 1 Corinthians 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
- Psalms 103:13
Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him.
- Isaiah 57:16
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.