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Bible verses about new beginnings
Passages on fresh starts, new creation, restoration, and the biblical promise that God makes all things new.
What does the Bible say about new beginnings?
The Bible is full of new beginnings. Creation itself is the first one. After the flood, Noah starts again. After exile, Israel returns. After the cross, the risen Christ inaugurates a new creation. Paul says that anyone in Christ is a new creature.
These verses are for people facing transitions, starting over, or needing assurance that the past does not have the last word. They cover personal renewal, divine restoration, and the cosmic promise that God is making all things new.
Key passages
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. The renewed man acts upon new principles, by new rules, with new ends, and in new company. The believer is created anew; his heart is not merely set right, but a new heart is given him.
"Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old."
Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described.
"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."
Behold, I will do a new thing. The deliverance from Babylon is foretold, but there is reference to greater events. The redemption of sinners by Christ, the conversion of the Gentiles, and the recall of the Jews, are described.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
God shall wipe away all tears; behold, I make all things new. The new heaven and the new earth will not be separate from each other; the earth of the saints, their glorified, bodies, will be heavenly. The old world, with all its troubles and tumults, will have passed away.
"It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
The Lord's mercies are new every morning. Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse.
"They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."
Great is thy faithfulness. Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse.
Main takeaways
- God specialises in new beginnings, from creation to resurrection.
- In Christ, the old has passed away and the new has come.
- The Bible treats fresh starts not as forgetting the past but as being freed from it.
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