Matthew 9:16
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
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.
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.
And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- new cloth
- or, raw, or unwrought cloth. for.
- Genesis 33:14; Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 40:11; John 16:12; 1 Corinthians 3:1, 2; 1 Corinthians 13:13