30 Bible Verses about Commendation

But Jesus knowing it, said to them, Why do you trouble the woman? for she has done a good work for me;

And Jesus hearing these things wondered at him, and turning around said to the multitude following him, I tell you I have not found in Israel so great a faith;

Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Be it to you as you wish; and her daughter was cured from that hour.

And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonas, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven. And I tell you that you are Peter [a rock], and upon this rock will I build my assembly, and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.

And he said, I tell you truly, that this poor widow has cast in more than all;

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, through which he was declared to be righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and through the same, having died, he speaks still.

By faith Enoch was translated without seeing death, and was not found because God translated him. For before the translation he was said to have pleased God;

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. For by it the ancients obtained a good repute.

Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

for he that in this serves Christ is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

And we sent with him the brother, whose praise in the gospel is in all the churches,

And none of these who became martyrs through faith received the promise,

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when proved he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

Behold, we account them blessed who are patient. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you know the purpose of the Lord, that he is very merciful and compassionate.

For this deserves thanks, if on account of a knowledge of God one endures pain, suffering unjustly. For what glory is it if when you sin and are punished you bear it patiently? But if you do well and suffer and bear it patiently, [this deserves thanks], for it is acceptable to God.

for not he that commends himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commends.

And the lord praised the unjust steward, because he did wisely; for the children of this life are wiser, for their generation, than the children of light.

I receive not glory from men,

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

And he wishing to go into Achaia, the brothers sent him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. And when he came he helped those much who had believed through the grace;

For not that which is external is the Jew, nor is that which is external in the flesh circumcision.

For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Will you not fear the power? Do good, and you shall have praise from it;

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

I COMMEND you, brothers, that you have remembered all my [instructions], and that you retain the traditions as I delivered them to you.

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some, commendatory epistles to you or from you?

I have become foolish; you compelled me. For I ought to have been commended by you; for in nothing am I behind the chief of the apostles, though I also am nothing.

neither did we seek glory of men, either of you or of others, when we might have been burdensome as apostles of Christ;

to governors, sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and the praise of those who do well;

For we do not again commend ourselves to you, but give you occasion to glory on our account, that you may have something for those that glory in appearance and not in heart.

but in every thing commending ourselves as ministers of God, in great patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in dissensions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, in purity, in knowledge, in long-suffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,read more.
in the word of truth, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, with honor and dishonor, with evil report and good report; as deceivers and true, as unknown and well-known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened and not killed, as grieving but always rejoicing, as poor but making many rich, as having nothing and possessing all things.