For I know the thoughts that I think towards you,” says the LORD, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. – Jeremiah 29:11
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. – 2 Corinthians 5:17, WEB-BE
“Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away… Behold, I am making all things new.” – Revelations 21:3-5, WEB-BE
“Don’t remember the former things,
and don’t consider the things of old.
Behold, I will do a new thing.
It springs out now.
Don’t you know it?
I will even make a way in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert.
-Isaiah 43:18-19, WEB-BE
“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. – Acts 3:19-21, WEB-BE
“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD,
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel,
and with the house of Judah:
not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt;
which covenant of mine they broke,
although I was a husband to them,” says the LORD.
“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,”
says the LORD:
I will put my law in their inward parts,
and I will write it in their heart.
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
They will no longer each teach his neighbour,
and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD;’
for they will all know me,
from their least to their greatest,” says the LORD:
“for I will forgive their iniquity,
and I will remember their sin no more.”
-Jeremiah 31:31-34, WEB-BE
It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
because his compassion doesn’t fail.
They are new every morning.
Great is your faithfulness.
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul.
“Therefore I will hope in him.”
-Lamentations 3:22-24, WEB-BE
…put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit; and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. – Ephesians 4:22-24, WEB-BE
Even the youths faint and get weary,
and the young men utterly fall;
But those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength.
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint.
-Isaiah 40:30-31, WEB-BE
But to you who fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings. – Malachi 4:2, WEB-BE
I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you. I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. – Ezekiel 36:26, WEB-BE
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you, who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. – 1 Peter 1:3-5
“Don’t be afraid; for you will not be ashamed.
Don’t be confounded; for you will not be disappointed.
For you will forget the shame of your youth;
and the reproach of your widowhood you shall remember no more.
For your Maker is your husband; the LORD of Armies is his name.
-Isaiah 54:4-5, WEB-BE
“You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted,
behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colours,
and lay your foundations with sapphires.
I will make your pinnacles of rubies,
your gates of sparkling jewels,
and all your walls of precious stones.
-Isaiah 54:11-12, WEB-BE
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