January Bible Verses: Start the Year with Daily Scriptures

January Bible Verses: Start the Year with Daily Scriptures

Find Bible Verses for January to read and write each day throughout the month. January's theme for scripture quotes is "Repentance" featuring Bible verses about repenting our sin and transforming ourselves by the renewing of our hearts and minds. 

May these January Bible verses provide inspiration and revelation of repentance, and the power of confessing our sins. Be encouraged by these scripture quotes to humble yourself, and pray and seek God's face and turn from any wicked ways. (2 Chronicles 7:14) 

Also, we recommend downloading the "January Scripture Writing Guide" from iBelieve.com HERE

January Scripture Week 1: All Have Sinned

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January 1

"What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God." ~ Romans 3:9-11

January 2

"If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." ~ 1 John 1:8-10

January 3

"Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins." ~ Ecclesiastes 7:20

January 4

"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." ~ Romans 5:8

January 5

"Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned-- for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law." ~ Romans 5:12-13

January 6

"Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God." ~ Galatians 5:19-21

January 7

"Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." ~ John 8:34

January Scripture Week 2: Called to Repent

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January 8

"From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” ~ Matthew 4:17

January 9

"The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance." ~ 2 Peter 3:9

January 10

"And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." ~ Acts 2:38

January 11

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent" ~ Acts 17:30

January 12

"Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?" ~ Romans 2:4

January 13

"If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14

January 14

"And Jesus answered them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance." ~ Luke 5:31-32

January Scripture Week 3: Confess Your Sin

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January 15

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." ~ 1 John 1:9

January 16

"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." ~ James 5:16

January 17

"Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." ~ Luke 15:7

January 18

"For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death." ~ 2 Corinthians 7:10

January 19

"Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy." ~ Proverbs 28:13

January 20

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." ~ James 4:7

January 21

"And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” ~ Mark 11:25

January Scripture Week 4: Believe in Christ

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January 22

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." ~ 2 Corinthians 5:17

January 23

"We know that everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but he who was born of God protects him, and the evil one does not touch him." ~ 1 John 5:18

January 24

"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect." ~ Romans 12:2

January 25

"Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God" ~ 1 Peter 1:23

January 26

"Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator." ~ Colossians 3:9-10

January 27

"And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever." ~ Revelation 22:5

January 28

"But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness." ~ Ephesians 4:20-24

January 29

"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit" ~ Titus 3:5

January 30

"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God" ~ John 1:12

January 31

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." ~ Galatians 2:20

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