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18 Bible Verses About Change in Life

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Summary

  • The verb in Romans 12:2, “be transformed”, is metamorphoo, the word Matthew 17:2 uses for the transfiguration of Jesus.
  • In Ezekiel 36:24-27 God is the one acting in each clause of the promise of a new heart and a new spirit.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 comes from a letter to exiles in Babylon who were told to build houses, plant gardens and wait until seventy years were completed.
  • Malachi 3:6 gives God’s unchanging nature as the reason the descendants of Jacob are not destroyed, and 3:7 calls them to return.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 says the living as well as the dead “will all be changed” at the last trumpet.

The Bible speaks of two kinds of change in a life: the change God works in a person, and the changes of circumstance a person lives through. The first is the new heart of Ezekiel 36:26, the new creation of 2 Corinthians 5:17 and the renewed mind of Romans 12:2. The second runs from the seasons of Ecclesiastes 3:1 to Joshua taking over after the death of Moses (Joshua 1:9) and the exiles in Babylon (Jeremiah 29:11). Other passages describe…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 3339, μεταμορφόω (metamorphoo): to transform, to change form; used of the transfiguration in Matthew 17:2 and in 2 Corinthians 3:18. biblehub.com/greek/3339

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