Luke.16.8The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.
Acts.14.26and from there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work that they had fulfilled.
Acts.15.40but Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the grace of the Lord.
Acts.20.32And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Rom.16.1I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,
1Cor.8.8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do.
1Cor.11.2Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
1Cor.11.17But in the instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.
1Cor.11.22What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not.
2Cor.3.1Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?
2Cor.4.2But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
2Cor.5.12We are not commending ourselves to you again but giving you cause to boast about us, so that you may be able to answer those who boast about outward appearance and not about what is in the heart.
2Cor.6.4but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities,
2Cor.10.12Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding.
2Cor.10.18For it is not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one whom the Lord commends.
2Cor.12.11I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not at all inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.
Heb.11.4By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb.11.5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
Heb.11.39And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,