³⁶ He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment. If he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

²¹ No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the patch tears away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. ²² And no one puts new wine into old ^(A)wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”^[a]

¹⁶ No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made. ¹⁷ Neither is new wine put into old ^(A)wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”

¹⁶ What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For ^(A)we are the temple of the living God; as God said,

¹¹ You shall not wear cloth of wool and linen mixed together.

You Shall Keep My Statutes

^19 (A)“You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. ^(B)You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material.