A new job, a new city, a new year, or simply starting over after a hard season. The Bible is full of fresh starts: “Behold, I will do a new thing” (Isaiah 43:19). Here is a verse for your new beginning.
A verse for you
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.
Do not stay in the past. God is doing a new thing, even in the wilderness.
KJVRemember 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.
Do not stay in the past. God is doing a new thing, even in the wilderness.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
In Christ you are a new creation. The old has passed away.
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.
Written after disaster: God’s mercies have not run out. They are new every morning.
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.
Forget what is behind and press on toward what is ahead.
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.
God promises a new heart and a new spirit in place of a heart of stone.
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.
The One on the throne says: behold, I make all things new.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
There is a season for everything. This one is not forever.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Said to people in exile: God’s thoughts toward you are peace and a future with hope.
God is described again and again as one who makes things new. He promised exiles a road in the wilderness. He promised a new heart in place of a heart of stone. And the Bible ends with “Behold, I make all things new.”
For a person, the deepest new beginning is in Christ: “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away.” Your past does not get the final word on who you are.
Paul’s practical advice for starting over: forget what lies behind, reach for what is ahead, and press on. And remember that mercies are new every morning, so tomorrow can be a fresh start too.
Isaiah 43:18-19, “Behold, I will do a new thing,” and 2 Corinthians 5:17, “he is a new creature.”
Lamentations 3:22-23 and Philippians 3:13-14 fit a new year well: new mercies, and pressing on toward what is ahead.
Yes. The Bible’s message is that in Christ the old has passed away and the new has come (2 Corinthians 5:17).