The best Bible verses for new year include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for new year, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it."Deuteronomy 20:5
"The officers shall say to the army: “Has anyone built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him go home, or he may die in battle and someone else may dedicate it."Deuteronomy 20:5
"When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof."Deuteronomy 22:8
"Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants."Deuteronomy 32:2
"So Israel will live in safety alone; Jacob’s spring is secure in a land of grain and new wine, where the heavens drop dew."Deuteronomy 33:28
"What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun."Ecclesiastes 1:9
"Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time."Ecclesiastes 1:10
"by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace,"Ephesians 2:15
"But God found fault with the people and said: “The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah."Hebrews 8:8
"By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear."Hebrews 8:13
"They are only a matter of food and drink and various ceremonial washings—external regulations applying until the time of the new order."Hebrews 9:10
"to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel."Hebrews 12:24
"Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your evil assemblies."Isaiah 1:13
"Your New Moon festivals and your appointed feasts my soul hates. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them."Isaiah 1:14
Scripture returns to new year often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for new year are Deuteronomy 20:5, Deuteronomy 22:8, Deuteronomy 32:2. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to new year across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for new year, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.