Mark 2:21
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New International Version (©1984)
"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, making the tear worse.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear results.

International Standard Version (©2008)
"No one patches an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. If he does, the patch pulls away from it-the new from the old-and a worse tear is made.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"No one patches an old coat with a new piece of cloth that will shrink. Otherwise, the new patch will shrink and rip away some of the old cloth, and the tear will become worse.

King James Bible
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

American King James Version
No man also sews a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up takes away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

American Standard Version
No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.

Bible in Basic English
No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.

Douay-Rheims Bible
No man seweth a piece of raw cloth to an old garment: otherwise the new piecing taketh away from the old, and there is made a greater rent.

Darby Bible Translation
No one sews a patch of new cloth on an old garment: otherwise its new filling-up takes from the old stuff, and there is a worse rent.

English Revised Version
No man seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.

Webster's Bible Translation
No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up, taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

Weymouth New Testament
No one mends an old garment with a piece of unshrunk cloth. Otherwise, the patch put on would tear away from it--the new from the old--and a worse hole would be made.

World English Bible
No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.

Young's Literal Translation
'And no one a patch of undressed cloth doth sew on an old garment, and if not -- the new filling it up doth take from the old and the rent doth become worse;

Geneva Study Bible

No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

People's New Testament

2:21 No man also seweth, etc. On this figure, see PNT Mt 9:16.

King James Translators' Notes

new cloth: or, raw, or, unwrought cloth

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:18-22 Strict professors are apt to blame all that do not fully come up to their own views. Christ did not escape slanders; we should be willing to bear them, as well as careful not to deserve them; but should attend to every part of our duty in its proper order and season.


Mark 2:20 "But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Mark 2:22 "No one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins." (NASB ©1995)

Bit Cloth Coat Filled Garment Hole Mends New Otherwise Patch Piece Pull Pulls Puts Rent Sews Shrinks Tear Tears Unshrunk Worse


No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

seweth. Ps 103:13-15 Isa 57:16 1Co 10:13

new. or, raw, or, unwrought. Mt 9:16

Bible Gateway: Mark Chapter 2 Verse 21 NIV ESV NKJV NLT KJV Message Amplified

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