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Bible Verses About New Beginnings — and Where They Actually Sit

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Summary

  • The verses people want for a new beginning are mostly about God starting something rather than about turning over a leaf.
  • Lamentations 3:22-23 is said in the middle of five poems about a destroyed city, a few lines after “he has broken my teeth with gravel.”
  • The “former things” of Isaiah 43:18 include the exodus, which the preceding verses have just described. The instruction is to stop living on the best thing that ever happened.
  • Isaiah 40:31 runs soar, run, walk — ending on the least impressive verb, because most of a new start is walking.
  • Revelation 21:5 is present tense, and the verse before it leaves the tears there to be wiped. Scripture does not pretend they were never shed.

The verses people want for a new beginning are mostly about God starting something, not about us turning over a leaf. That difference is worth keeping, because the second kind of promise does not survive February. The one for a bad year Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23) Worth knowing where that sits. Lamentations is five poems about a destroyed…

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Sources: Scripture quotations from the NIV via BibleGateway (Lamentations 3:16, 22-23; Isaiah 40:31; 43:16-19; Psalm 51:10; Proverbs 24:16; Ezekiel 36:26; Luke 15:17-22; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Philippians 1:6; 3:13-14; Revelation 21:4-5).

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