With the new year, you may want to start from scratch and take advantage of this month of January to make a new start in your spiritual life. Here are some verses on the theme of novelty that will encourage you in your approach.
1) 2 Corinthians 5:17
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
2) Ezekiel 36:26-27
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit in you, and I will cause you to follow my ordinances and observe and practice my laws.”
3) Colossians 3: 9-10
“Do not lie to one another, having put off yourselves of the old man and his works, and having put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge, after the image of him who created him.”
4) Matthew 9: 16-17
“No one puts a piece of new cloth on an old coat; because it would take away part of the coat and the tearing would be worse. Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins break, the wine spills, and the skins are lost; but the new wine is put into new skins, and the wine and the skins are preserved.”
5) Romans 6:4
“Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life.”
6) Galatians 6:15
“For it is nothing to be circumcised or uncircumcised; what is something is to be a new creature.”
7) Attempts 43: 18-19
“Think no more of past events and no longer consider what is old. Behold, I will do a new thing that is about to happen: shall you not know it? I will put a way in the desert and rivers in the loneliness.”
8) 2 Corinthians 4:16
“That’s why we don’t lose heart. And even when our outer man is being destroyed, our inner man is being renewed day by day.”
9) John 15:1-3
“I am the true vine and my Father is the winemaker. Every branch that is in me that does not bear fruit he cuts off; and every branch that bears fruit he prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pure, because of the word that I announced to you (…)”
10) Revelation 21:5
“And he that sat on the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said, Write; for these words are sure and true.”
