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18 Bible Verses About Change and New Beginnings

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Summary

  • Isaiah 43:18-19 tells Israel to forget the former things straight after recalling the crossing of the sea, and promises a way through the wilderness in its place.
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was addressed to exiles in Babylon, and the return it promises comes “when seventy years are completed for Babylon”.
  • The Greek word behind “born again” in John 3:3, anothen, can also mean “from above”.
  • Colossians 3:9-10 says the old self has been taken off and that the new self is still being renewed.
  • Hebrews 8:8-12 quotes Jeremiah’s promise of a new covenant, and Hebrews 8:13 reasons that calling it new makes the first covenant obsolete.

The Bible describes new beginnings for a nation, for a person and for the whole creation, and in the prophets God is the one who makes them. Exiles are promised a way home (Isaiah 43:18-19), scattered Israel a new heart (Ezekiel 36:26), and the one on the throne says “I am making everything new!” (Revelation 21:5). Jesus tells Nicodemus that no one can see the kingdom of God “unless they are born again” (John 3:3). In the letters of Paul,…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 509, ἄνωθεν (anothen): from above, again, anew. biblehub.com/greek/509

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