⁵ No longer shall your name be Abram,^[a] but your name shall be Abraham,^[b] for I have made you the ancestor of a multitude of nations.^(A)

²¹ She will bear a son, and you are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”^{(A) 22} All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:

which means, “God is with us.”^(B)

⁷ You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham;^(A)

¹⁵ God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her Sarai, but Sarah shall be her name.

¹⁷ Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.^(A)

¹⁷ as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”), in the presence of the God in whom he believed,^[a] who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.^(A)

²⁸ Then the man^[a] said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,^[b] for you have striven with God and with humans^[c] and have prevailed.”^(A)

⁴² He brought Simon^[a] to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You are to be called Cephas”^[b] (which is translated Peter^[c]).^(A)