Explore Bible verses for the New Year: new beginnings, wisdom for planning, and strength for change. These scriptures help you set goals with grace instead of pressure.
A New Year can trigger motivation—and anxiety. A healthy approach is to focus on small, sustainable habits, self-compassion, and values-driven goals. Scripture can help you hold ambition and humility together: plan wisely, and trust God with what you can’t control.
"{It is of} the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not."
Lamentations 3:22 means that God's unfailing kindness and love protect us from being overwhelmed by life's challenges. Even in tough times, His compassion is constant. This verse reassures us that …
"{They are} new every morning: great {is} thy faithfulness."
"Therefore if any man {be} in Christ, {he is} a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. {he is: or, let him be}"
2 Corinthians 5:17 means that when someone believes in Christ, they become a new person inside. Their past mistakes and old ways are gone, and they start fresh. This can …
"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."
"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."
"A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps."
"Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:"
"Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}"
"For that ye {ought} to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that."
"So teach {us} to number our days, that we may apply {our} hearts unto wisdom. {apply: Heb. cause to come}"
"Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost."
"And whatsoever ye do, do {it} heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;"
Colossians 3:23 encourages us to give our best effort in everything we do, as if we are working for God, not just for people. This means whether you're helping a …
"Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring {it} to pass. {Commit...: Heb. Roll thy way upon}"
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