New Year Bible Verses to Celebrate 2023
Begin 2023 with encouraging Bible passages to strengthen your faith, deepen your love, and increase your hope!
Scripture is full of amazing guidance for transforming your life with a fresh start. In particular, the New Testament has a wealth of Bible verses about a new beginning in Jesus Christ, Who redeemed humanity from death and sin for our salvation and reconciliation with God.
From Ephesians 4:22-24, we know that following Christ enables us to throw away our former way of life and to leave behind our old self. This includes the negative attitudes and deceitful desires that sometimes creep into the human conscience. We embark on a new path toward everlasting life by believing in Jesus and following His Gospel commandments.
"If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness." ~ Ephesians 4:21-24
Discover a collection of New Year Bible verses for renewal and growth in the coming year of 2023 and beyond. We have gathered the best scripture quotes about new beginnings, hope, faith, vision, fasting, and more for inspiration in the year to come. In addition to verses, use these powerful New Year Prayers in supplication of strength and hope.
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11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
18 "They will return to it and remove all its vile images and detestable idols. 19 I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. 20 Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.
18 "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
2 But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
22 Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. 24 I say to myself, "The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him."
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
31 but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
5 He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven-as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little."
19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God-
7 "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.
17 "See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lordand put their trust in him.
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
16 Let us then approach God's throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
