Bible verses about new beginnings
Bible verses about new beginnings include 2 Corinthians 5:17, which calls a person in Christ a new creation, Isaiah 43:18-19, which tells you to stop dwelling on the past, and Lamentations 3:22-23, which talks about mercy that is new each morning. They fit a new year, a move or a second chance. All eleven are below.
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1.2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
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Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
Paul says anyone in Christ is a new creation, with the old passing away. It is the verse most people think of first for a fresh start.
2.Isaiah 43:18-19
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
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“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Written to exiles. The verse tells them to stop dwelling on what used to be, because God is doing something new. Look for it.
3.Lamentations 3:22-23
It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his mercies don’t fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
Mercy that is new every morning, written by someone grieving a ruined city. Each day gets treated as a small reset.
4.Ezekiel 36:26
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
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I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
A promise to Israel of a new heart and a new spirit, with a heart of stone swapped for one that feels.
5.Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
David's prayer after a serious moral failure. He asks for a clean heart and a renewed spirit. A real starting-over prayer.
6.Philippians 3:13-14
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Brothers, I don’t regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do: forgetting the things which are behind and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Paul admits he hasn't arrived. He leaves the past behind and keeps reaching toward what's ahead.
7.Romans 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
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We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.
Baptism is the picture here: buried with Christ and raised to live a new life. Paul uses it to describe a different way of living.
8.Revelation 21:5
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
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He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” He said, “Write, for these words of God are faithful and true.”
From John's vision of the end, where the one on the throne says he is making all things new.
9.Job 8:7
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
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Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
Said by Bildad, one of Job's friends, who was often wrong. The line is about a small start and a big finish, so read it with that context.
10.Genesis 12:1-3
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
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Now the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who treats you with contempt. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you.”
Abram is told to leave home and go to a land he hasn't seen yet. A big start with no map.
11.Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
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Behold, the former things have happened and I declare new things. I tell you about them before they come up.”
God points to earlier things that already happened and announces new ones before they appear. Mostly a verse about hope for what's next.
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What is a good Bible verse about new beginnings?
2 Corinthians 5:17 is a good place to start. Paul says anyone in Christ is a new creation, with the old passing away. It is the verse most people think of first for a fresh start.
What does the Bible say about starting over after a mistake?
David wrote Psalm 51:10 after a serious wrong and asked for a clean heart. Peter denied Jesus three times, and John 21 shows him being given a job again. The Bible is full of people who failed and kept going.
What Bible verse is good for a new year?
Isaiah 43:18-19, Philippians 3:13-14 and Revelation 21:5 are the ones that come up most in January. Some people pick one and keep it on a card for the year. Verses about renewal and looking ahead suit the occasion.
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