'Commend' in the Bible

But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

For judges and magistrates are to be feared not by right-doers but by wrong-doers. You desire--do you not? --to have no reason to fear your ruler. Well, do the thing that is right, and then he will commend you.

and whoever in this way devotedly serves Christ, God takes pleasure in him, and men highly commend him.

I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea: