30 Day Bible Reading Plan for the New Year

 

We think of the New Year – we often think about resolutions and changes we need to make. I would make New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or save more money. And by February – I was back to eating what I wanted with no savings in the bank.  Does that sound familiar to you?

We hear so much about the “New” in New Year but we forget that the scriptures of “old” were written to renew us. With all the talk of losing weight, being more productive, and starting a business – the key ingredient to achieving all of those things tends to get left out – and that’s our spiritual growth.

As you think about what it is you want to accomplish in the next year – it’s always important make sure it’s underpinned by the Word of God. With that thought in mind – I searched for 30 bible verses to read for the New Year. 

Don’t forget you can also download the 30 day printable bible reading plan for the New Year when you sign up for our weekly “Life Letters”!

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

2.  Colossians 3:9-11 NIV
Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

3. Isaiah 43:18-19 NIV
Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 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.

4. Lamentations 3:22-24 NIV
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. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

5. 1 Peter 1:3 NIV
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

6. Isaiah 40:31 AMP
But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] will gain new strength and renew their power; they will lift up their wings [and rise up close to God] like eagles [rising toward the sun]; they will run and not become weary, they will walk and not grow tired.

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

8. Job 8:7 NIV
Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.

9. Philippians 3:13-14 NIV
Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

10. Revelation 21:4-5 NIV
‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 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.”

11. Ephesians 4:22-24 NIV
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

12. Psalm 121: 5 – 8 NIV
The LORD watches over you— the LORD is your shade at your right hand; the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD will keep you from all harm— he will watch over your life; 8 the LORD will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

13. Psalm 40:3 NIV
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.

14. Isaiah 65:17 NIV
“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind”.

15. Ezekiel 11:19 NIV
I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.

16. Ezekiel 36:26 NIV
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.

17. Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

18. John 1:1-5 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

19. Isaiah 58:12 ESV
And your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to dwell in.

20. Psalm 65:11 NIV
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.

21. 2 Peter 1:3
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.

22. Romans 6:3-4 NIV
Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

23. Isaiah 46:10 NIV
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.’

24. Jeremiah 1:5 NIV
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart;…

25. Psalm 139:16 ESV
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all my days were written in Your book and ordained for me before one of them came to be.

26. Isaiah 48:17 ESV
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go”.

27. Isaiah 30:21 ESV
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.

28. Proverbs 16:9 NIV
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.

29. Psalm 37:23-24 NIV
The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

30. Joel 2:25 ESV
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.