'Commended' in the Bible

Then Paul chose Silas and departed, after being commended to the grace of the Lord by the brothers.

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.