9 Bible Verses about Old Things
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new cloth is never patch'd upon an old garment: for the patch will draw the garment, and rend it still worse.
neither do men put new wine into old skins: if they should, the bottles will burst, so that the wine will be lost and the skins be spoil'd: but they put new wine into new skins, whereby both are preserved.
so no man pours new wine into old skins, for that would burst them, and then both would be lost: but new wine must be put into new skins.
nor will any one put new wine into old skins: if they do, the new wine will burst the skins, and wine and skins be all lost.
sell your possessions and give alms. lay up for yourselves a stock not subject to decay, a treasure in the heavens that will never fail, where no thief can approach, nor moth can spoil.
but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.
so no-body that has been drinking old wine, will immediately call for new: for 'tis his maxim, "the old is best."
now by stiling the second a new alliance, he has antiquated the first. but to be antiquated and obsolete is next to being abolished.
My brethren, I don't prescribe you any new commandment, but the antient precept which you had from the beginning: and that is no other than the word which was originally delivered.
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