31 Bible Verses for the New Year

Scripture has lots to say about new beginnings and new plans. These 31 Bible verses for the New Year help us align our heart to God’s as we make plans, goals, hopes, and dreams.

I often stand at the threshold of a new year and wonder at the great unknowns it holds. Some very, very good and some very unexpected. I’m always grateful they aren’t unknown to God. He knows the way we take and he’s already there.

As I’ve lived out life after deep loss, a loss that fundamentally changed the story I wanted, I’ve learned more and more to let God hold the pen. To surrender my expectations and discern where he’s leading.

Even when life implodes with unexpected loss, God can reshape what shattered, bringing new purpose beyond anything we could imagine to see that life can be good again.

The new year brings fresh hope and new beginnings. In my own grief, I remember desperately wanting to look forward again and hold a new dream. These 31 New Year scriptures are both inspiration and direction as we lean into new hopes and dreams for the coming year.

31 Bible Verses for the New Year

1.”Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

2. “See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” (Isaiah 43:19)

3. “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10)

4. “Because of the LORD’s loving devotion we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!” (Lamentations 3:22-23)

5. “He who was seated on the throne said, ‘I am making everything new!’ Then he said, ‘Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.'” (Revelation 21:5)

6. “I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’” (Isaiah 46:10)

7. “What I have said, that I will bring about; what I have planned, that I will do.” (Isaiah 46:11)

8. “We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.” (Proverbs 16:9)

9. “The steps of a man are established by the LORD, And He delights in his way.” (Psalm 37:23)

10. “Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.” (Psalm 25:1)

11. “Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.” (Psalm 37:5)

12. “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand.” (Proverbs 19:21)

13. “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

14. “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” (Psalm 90:12)

15. “You crown the year with a bountiful harvest; even the hard pathways overflow with abundance.” (Psalm 65:11)

16. “I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.” (Joel 2:25)

17. “But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.” (Jeremiah 17:7-8)

18. “The LORD Himself goes before you; He will be with you. He will never leave you or forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.” (Deuteronomy 31:8)

19. “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” (Joshua 1:9)

20. “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)

21. “Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established.” (Proverbs 16:3)

22. “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.” (Proverbs 31:25)

23. “Rather, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.'” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

24. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Today has enough trouble of its own.” (Matthew 6:33-34)

25. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7)

26. “I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.” (Psalm 40:8)

27. “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit’—yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.'” (James 4:13-15)

28. “And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, ‘This is the way, walk in it,’ when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.” (Isaiah 30:21)

29. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven…” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)

30. “Oh sing to the Lord a new song…” (Psalm 96:1)

31. “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36:26)