KJV ORIGINAL
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.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
Then Jesus told them this story: You don't take a piece from a brand new outfit to patch up your old clothes. If you do that, you've just ruined the new outfit, and the patch won't even match the old one anyway.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Some things are meant to be completely new, not just patched up versions of the old.
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