30 Bible Verses about Commendation
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But Jesus, because He understood them, said to them, "Why do you embarrass the woman? She has done a good deed to me,
When Jesus heard this, He was astounded at him, and turning to the crowd that was following Him He said, "I tell you, I have not found, in a single case among the Jews, so great faith as this!"
Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, wonderful is your faith! You must have what you want." And her daughter was cured at that very moment.
Then Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah, for it is not man that made this known to you, but my Father in heaven. And I, yes I, tell you, your name from now on is to be Peter, Rock, and on a massive rock like this I will build my church, and the powers of the underworld shall never overthrow it.
And He said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has dropped in more than all of them;
By faith Abel offered a sacrifice more acceptable to God than Cain did, for by it he was approved as an upright man, since God approved him for the offering he made; and by it he still continues to speak, though dead.
By faith Enoch was transplanted from earth, so that he did not experience dying; and he could not be found, because God had transplanted him from earth. For before he was transplanted from earth evidence was given him that he pleased God;
Now faith is the assurance of the things we hope for, the proof of the reality of the things we cannot see. For by it the men of old won God's approval.
Then the King will say to those at His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world.
whoever in this way continues serving Christ is well-pleasing to God and approved by men.
I am sending with him the well-known brother whose praise for spreading the good news is ringing through all the churches.
Though all these people by their faith won God's approval, yet none of them received what He had promised,
Blessed is the person who endures trial, for when he stands the test, he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love Him.
See how we call those who thus endured happy! You have heard how patiently Job endured and have seen how the Lord finally blessed him, because the Lord is tenderhearted and merciful.
For it is pleasing in the sight of God for one to bear his sorrows though suffering innocently. For what credit is it to bear it patiently, if you do wrong and are beaten for it? But if you do right and patiently suffer for it, it is pleasing in the sight of God.
For it is not the man who keeps on recommending himself who is really approved, but it is the man whom the Lord recommends.
And his master praised the dishonest manager, because he acted with shrewd business sense, for the men of the world act with more business sense toward their fellows than the men who enjoy spiritual light.
Because he wished to cross to Greece, the brothers wrote and urged the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival he rendered great service to those who through God's favor had believed,
For the real Jew is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, and real circumcision is not outward physical circumcision.
For civil authorities are not a terror to the man who does right, but they are to the man who does wrong. Do you want to have no dread of the civil authorities? Then practice doing right and you will be commended for it.
Now I introduce to you our sister Phoebe, who is a deaconess in the church at Cenchreae,
I prize and praise you for always remembering me and for firmly standing by the teachings as I passed them on to you.
Am I beginning to recommend myself again? I do not, like some people, do I, need letters of recommendation to you or from you?
I have made a fool of myself, but you have forced me to do it, for I am the man who ought to have been constantly approved by you. For I am not a single bit inferior to your surpassingly superior apostles, though really I am "nobody."
We never sought praise from men, either from you or from anyone else; although as apostles we could have stood on our official dignity.
and to governors as sent by Him to punish those who do evil and to reward those who do right.
I am not trying to recommend myself to you again. I am giving you ground for speaking well of me, that you may have something to say to those who are constantly prating about external privileges and not concerned about the state of the heart.
On the contrary, I am trying in everything to prove to people that I am a true servant of God: by my tremendous endurance in sorrows, distresses, difficulties; in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger; through my personal purity, my knowledge, my patience, my kindness; through the Holy Spirit, my genuine love,read more.
my message of truth, and the power of God; with the weapons of right-doing in my right hand and my left; in honor or dishonor, in slander or praise; considered a deceiver and yet true, obscure and yet well-known, on the point of dying and yet I go on living, punished and yet not put to death, sad but always glad, poor but making many people rich, penniless but really possessing everything.
