New Year Bible verses — fresh starts and new mercies
A new year is a threshold: one hand still holding what has been, the other opening toward what is next. These verses walk you across it — gratitude for the year behind, the promise of new mercies, and trust for the road ahead — each one exact King James Version, with a gentle note.
Read them on New Year's Eve, on the first morning of January, or whenever your own new season begins. Every verse links into its full chapter.
Looking back with gratitude
Close the old year the way the psalmists did — counting what God has done.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
Bless the LORD — and forget not all his benefits. Read in context →
Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
The Ebenezer stone: hitherto hath the LORD helped us. Read in context →
Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Our dwelling place in all generations — including last year. Read in context →
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. Read in context →
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness. Read in context →
Fresh starts and new mercies
The God of new beginnings, at the threshold of the year.
It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Mercies new every morning — 365 fresh supplies ahead. Read in context →
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing — now it shall spring forth. Read in context →
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, a new creature: old things are passed away. Read in context →
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,
Forgetting what is behind, reaching forth to what is before. Read in context →
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.
A new heart also will I give you — the deepest resolution. Read in context →
Trusting God with the year ahead
Plans held loosely, in hands that hold the calendar.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Trust with all thine heart — and he shall direct thy paths. Read in context →
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.
Thoughts of peace, and an expected end. Read in context →
My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
My times are in thy hand — the year's true keeping. Read in context →
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. Read in context →
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
The wise preface for every plan: if the Lord will. Read in context →
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
One day at a time — the only way years are ever lived. Read in context →
Make this verse yours
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Verses about new beginnings
The full fresh-starts collection.
Verse of the day
Begin every morning of the year with one verse.
Reading plans
A gentle daily structure for the new year.
Verses about trust
For everything the year might hold.
A morning prayer
Words to begin the year's ordinary days.
Make a verse card
Set this year's verse as your phone wallpaper — free.
