A moment in scripture
Luke 5:37
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
The surrounding passage
- Luke 5:35
But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.
- Luke 5:36
And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
- Luke 5:38
But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
- Luke 5:39
No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.