Life situation · New beginnings
Bible verses for new beginnings, renewal, and faithful next steps
A new beginning can feel hopeful and unfinished at the same time. These passages begin with renewed mercy, move to transformed life, and finish with committed steps toward what lies ahead.
18 passages · King James Version
01
New mercy and a new season
These readings name fresh mercy, a new work, a new song, and the fitting time for each season.
“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.”
“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.”
“And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.”
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:”
02
Renewed life from within
These passages describe new creation, a new heart, new life, and an identity continually being renewed.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
“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.”
“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.”
“And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
“And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:”
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.”
03
Faithful steps forward
These verses pair release of the past with commitment, trust, directed paths, and the promise of renewal.
“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.”
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“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.”
Questions about reading these verses
Which Bible verse is a good starting point for a new season?
Lamentations 3:22–23 begins with mercy renewed each morning, while Isaiah 43:19 invites attention to a new work already beginning. Either can anchor a simple prayer for the next step.
Does a new beginning require forgetting everything in the past?
No. Philippians 3 points toward forward movement, not denial. Wisdom can remember truth, receive mercy, learn from what happened, and still refuse to let the past control every next step.
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Scripture source: King James Version (KJV) · Public domain except where Crown rights apply