9 Bible Verses about Changed Names
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No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
And he said, Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel: for in your fight with God and with men you have overcome.
And Pharaoh gave Joseph the name of Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, the priest of On, to be his wife. So Joseph went through all the land of Egypt.
Jacob is your name, but it will be so no longer; from now your name will be Israel; so he was named Israel. And God said to him, I am God, the Ruler of all: be fertile, and have increase; a nation, truly a group of nations, will come from you, and kings will be your offspring;
It is to be eighteen thousand all round: and the name of the town from that day will be, The Lord is there.
So that day he gave him the name of Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal take up his cause against him because his altar has been broken down.
And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.
But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,
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