"Neither do they put new wine into old wine-skins; otherwise, indeed, the skins burst, and the wine runs out, and the skins are destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wine-skins, and both are preserved together."

Blind guides! straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel!

And I say to you, I will not drink henceforth of this product of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the Kingdom of My Father."

they gave Him to drink wine mingled with gall; and, having tasted it, He would not drink.

And they were offering Him wine mingled with myrrh: but He did not take it.

for he will be great before the Lord; and he will drink no wine nor strong drink; and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.

yea, and on My servants and on My handmaidens in those days will I pour out of My Spirit, and they shall prophesy.

Let us not, therefore, judge one another any more; but judge ye this rather, not to put a stumbling-block, or an occasion of falling, in a brother's way. I know, and have been persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself: except that to him who accounts anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. read more. For, if because of your food your brother is aggrieved, you are no longer walking in accordance with love. Destroy not with your food him for whom Christ died. Let not, therefore, your good be evil spoken of; for the Kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. For he that in these things serves Christ, is well-pleasing to God, and approved by men. So, then, let us follow after the things productive of peace, and the things that tend to mutual edification. Do not, for the sake of food, overthrow the work of God. All things, indeed, are clean; but it is evil to him who eats with offense. It is good, neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby your brother stumbles.

but, if anyone loves God, the same has been known by Him: concerning, therefore, the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but One. read more. For, even if there are things called gods, whether in heaven, or on earth (as there are gods many, and lords many); yet to us there is One God, the Father, of Whom are all things, and we for Him; and One Lord Jesus Christ, through Whom are all things, and we through Him. But this knowledge is not in all; but some, by familiarity with the idol even until now, eat it as an idol-sacrifice; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. But food will not commend us to God; neither, if we eat not, are we lacking; nor, if we eat, do we abound. But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak. For, if anyone sees you, who have knowledge, reclining at table in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat the idol-sacrifices? For he that is weak??he brother for whom Christ died??erishes by reason of your knowledge. And thus, sinning against the brethren, and smiting their conscience which is weak, ye sin against Christ.