15 Best Bible Verses About Starting Over

God is a God that never stops working, creating, transforming, and doing new things. It is relieving to know that no matter the state you are currently in, God is always able to give you a fresh start. You don’t have to wait for a new year or a new season of life to begin. Everyday is a new opportunity that God gives us to start over. It is up to us to want to start over and allow God to transform our lives for the better. Below I am sharing 15 bible verses about starting over! Use these verses to inspire you to leave what needs to be left behind, transform your life, and start over with God’s help.

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Bible Characters Who Started Over

Peter

Although Peter was a disciple of Christ who walked with him, witnessed many miracles, and had a close relationship with Christ, he needed to start over.

Only after falling (denying Jesus Christ three times), was Peter able to understand how fragile he really is and how dependent on Christ he had to be in order to endure adversity. When he realized that and repented, God restored Peter and gave him a fresh start. Peter was no longer going to be just another disciple. God made Peter a leader who had to be responsible for the flock of God (Read: John 21:15-19).

Rahab

After years of being a prostitute in Jericho and living a hopeless life, Rahab needed to start over. Even though Rahab was a Canaanite women, God did not forbid her from starting over. In fact, God saved her entire household from destruction, made her part of an important mission (the war against Jericho), and made her a part of the line of Jesus Christ. God was able to give her a brand new identity, home, and life.

Read: Matthew 1:5 / Joshua 2:1-24

The Prodigal Son

The open arms of a Father who missed his son gave The Prodigal Son an opportunity to start over. It didn’t matter how much time, goods, or energy he had wasted recklessly away from home. When The Prodigal Son returned home, his father welcomed him with a banquet, new clothes, and a new opportunity to start over.

No matter how lost we may feel, God is always willing to welcome us back home, remove our shame, restore our lives, and let us start over.

Read: Luke 15

Paul

The Pharisee of Pharisees who thought he was serving God fervently needed to start over in order to please God. Paul spent a good portion of his life serving God the wrong way: persecuting Christians, living by works and not faith. But when Jesus encountered Paul on his way to Damascus, Paul’s life was transformed entirely.

Paul went from being a pharisee to being an apostle and a persecutor to persecuted.

Paul needed to start over in order to be used by God.

Read: Acts 9:1-19

Bible Verses About Starting Over

1. Isaiah 43:18

“Do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. (NKJV)

2. Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. (NKJV)

3. 2 Corinthians 5:17

 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (NKJV)

4. Lamentations 3:22-23

Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. (NKJV)

5. Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (NKJV)

6. Isaiah 40:31

But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (NKJV)

7. Ezekiel 36:26

I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (NKJV)

8. Romans 6:4

Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (NKJV)

9. Galatians 6:15

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation. (NKJV)

10. Isaiah 48:6

“You have heard; see all this. And will you not declare it? I have made you hear new things from this time, even hidden things, and you did not know them. (NKJV)

11. Colossians 3:10

And have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him. (NKJV)

12. 1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead (NKJV)

13. Revelation 21:5

Then He who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” And He said ^[a]to me, “Write, for these words are true and faithful.” (NKJV)

14. Ezekiel 11:19

Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh. (NKJV)

15. Isaiah 42:9

Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.” (NKJV)

FINAL THOUGHTS

I hope you found this post helpful! Let me know in the comments below which bible verses about starting over you liked the most.

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