Matthew 9:16

Nobody sews a patch of brand-new goods on an old coat, for such a patch would tear away from the coat, and the hole would be bigger than ever.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

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No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.

So I myself, brothers, could not deal with you as spiritual persons, but as creatures of human clay, as merely baby Christians.

And so these three, faith, hope, and love endure, but the greatest of them is love.

Then Jesus again spoke to them in stories, and said: