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Also, people do not put freshly squeezed grape juice into bottles made of previously used animal skins. If they did, the [old dried-out] animal skins would break open and the grape juice would [all] leak out, and the animal skins would become useless. But people put freshly squeezed grape juice into newly prepared animal skin bottles. That way both of them will survive."

Verse ConceptsAlcoholBottles, Figurative UseNewnessWineParables Of ChristAlcohol ConsumptionPutting Off The Old ManBreaking ContainersOld ThingsUnusedFreshPeople KeepingWineskins And Vatstoughness

But that person who causes one of these little ones [i.e., humble followers of the Lord] who believes in me to be led astray [from God], he would have been better off to have had a huge millstone tied around his neck and dumped into a deep ocean [Note: This "millstone" was a heavy circular stone rolled over grain to crush it and was moved by an animal walking in a circle].

Verse ConceptsInfantsBad ParentsNecksApostasy, Personal WarningsdrowningChildren, attitudes towardsInexperienceMillstonesSeaSin, Causes OfTemptation, Avoiding CausingChild AbuseThrowing PeopleCausing Others To StumbleSinkingBeing Killed By A RockEncouraging Faith In ChristPersonal GoodFaithful In LittleDealing With Young PeopleDeath Penalty For ViolenceIn The Heart Of The SeaDeep SeasMisleading ChildrenHelping Others