Luke 5:37
Good News Translation
Nor do you pour new wine into used wineskins, because the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will pour out, and the skins will be ruined.

New Revised Standard Version
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

Contemporary English Version
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.

New American Bible
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost.

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Joshua 9:4,13 Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again, . . .

Psalm 119:83 For I am become like a bottle in the frost: I have not forgotten thy justifications.

Context
The Patches and the Wineskins
36And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old. 37And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: otherwise the new wine will break the bottles; and it will be spilled and the bottles will be lost. 38But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:17
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.

Luke 5:36
And he spoke also a similitude to them: That no man putteth a piece from a new garment upon an old garment: otherwise he both rendeth the new, and the piece taken from the new agreeth not with the old.

Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into new bottles: and both are preserved.

Luke 5:36
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