30 Bible Verses about Commendation

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why do you trouble the woman? For she has done a beautiful thing to me.

When Jesus heard this, he marveled at him, and turned and said to the crowd that followed him, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel."

Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed from that very hour.

And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

So he said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of the others;

By faith Abel offered God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as a righteous man, when God spoke well of his gifts. And through faith he still speaks, even though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had taken him. For before he was taken he was attested as having pleased God.

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old received divine approval.

Then the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

he who serves Christ in this way is acceptable to God and approved by men.

And we are sending along with him the brother who is praised by all the churches for his preaching of the gospel;

And all these, though well attested by their faith, did not receive what was promised,

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, for when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.

Behold, we call those blessed who endured. You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

For a man is approved if, mindful of God, he bears up under pain while suffering unjustly. For what credit is it, if when you do wrong and are beaten for it you patiently endure? But if when you do right and suffer for it you patiently endure, you have favor with God.

For it is not he who commends himself that is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

So the master commended the dishonest steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

"I do not receive glory from men.

for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

And when he wanted to go across to Achaia, the brethren encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he had arrived, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace,

For he is not a real Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something outward and in the flesh.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will have praise from him.

I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church in Cenchrea,

I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.

Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some do, letters of recommendation to you, or from you?

I have been a fool! You forced me to it, for I ought to have been commended by you. For I was not in the least inferior to these super-apostles, even though I am nothing.

nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, though we might have made demands as apostles of Christ.

or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.

We are not again commending ourselves to you, but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you may have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

But as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: through great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, distresses, in beatings, imprisonments, tumults, labors, sleeplessness, hunger, in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,read more.
in truthful speech, and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left; through glory and dishonor, evil report and good report; true, yet regarded as impostors; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing everything.