But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Parallel translations
- WEB But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
- BSB Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.
- NKJV But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
- NASB But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
- NLT New wine must be stored in new wineskins.
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Quick answer
New wine belongs in fresh wineskins so both are preserved. The Kingdom calls for renewal, not mere reform.
Overview
Jesus concludes that new wine must go into fresh skins, and then both are kept safe. The point is the need for newness of heart and form to receive the gospel. This does not abolish God's prior revelation but fulfills it in a way the old structures, clung to rigidly, could not contain.
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Cross-references · 13
- Heb 8:8–13For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
- 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
- Ezek 36:26A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
- Rev 21:5And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
- Gal 4:9–11But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
- Gal 5:1–6Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
- Heb 13:9–10Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
- Col 2:19–23And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
- Gal 2:12–14For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
- Gal 6:13–14For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
- Gal 2:4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
- Phil 3:5–7Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
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