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Want to know what the Bible says about Names? Here are 35 Bible verses about Names from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Proverbs 22:1 NIV
A good name is more desirable than great riches;
    to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
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Ecclesiastes 7:1 NIV
A good name is better than fine perfume,
    and the day of death better than the day of birth.
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Isaiah 62:2 NIV
The nations will see your vindication,
    and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name
    that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
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Genesis 17:15 NIV
God also said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah.
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Genesis 17:5 NIV
No longer will you be called Abram ; your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
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John 15:16 NIV
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit —fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.
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Proverbs 18:10 NIV
The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;
    the righteous run to it and are safe.
24
2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
22
Revelation 2:17 NIV
Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.
22
Genesis 1:1 NIV
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
18
John 1:1 NIV
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
18
John 14:6 NIV
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
17
Genesis 32:28 NIV
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”
17
Exodus 17:15 NIV
Moses built an altar and called it The Lord is my Banner.
17
Acts 4:12 NIV
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
17
John 3:16 NIV
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
16
Genesis 17:1 NIV
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty ; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
14
Romans 10:13 NIV
for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14
Exodus 3:14 NIV
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”
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