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Mark 2:21 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made. "

Mark 2:21

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19 Jesus said to them, “Can the groomsmen fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they can’t fast.

20 But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

21 No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

22 No one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins.”

23 He was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

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Matthew 9:16

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"No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for the patch would tear away from the garment, and a worse hole is made."

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Luke 5:37

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"No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed."

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Haggai 1:6

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"You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’"

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Hosea 2:9

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"Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness."

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Psalms 102:26

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"They will perish, but you will endure. Yes, all of them will wear out like a garment. You will change them like a cloak, and they will be changed."

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Hebrews 1:11

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"They will perish, but you continue. They all will grow old like a garment does."

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Mark 2:1

"When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was at home."

Mark 2:2

"Immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even around the door; and he spoke the word to them."

Mark 2:3

"Four people came, carrying a paralytic to him."

Mark 2:4

"When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on."

Mark 2:5

"Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven you.”"

Mark 2:6

"But there were some of the scribes sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,"

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