New wine must be stored in new wineskins.
Parallel translations
- WEB But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.
- KJV But new wine must be put into new bottles; 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.
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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 said, “Behold, the days come”, says the Lord, “that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
- 2 Cor 5:17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
- Ezek 36:26I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
- Rev 21:5He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
- Gal 4:9–11But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?
- Gal 5:1–6Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
- 1 Tim 4:8For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
- Heb 13:9–10Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.
- Col 2:19–23and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
- Gal 2:12–14For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.
- Gal 6:13–14For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
- Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in 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, a Hebrew of Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee;
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