COMMEND/RECOMMEND

GREEK: commend = paratithemi meaning to put along or over to

             commend = sunistemi meaning to set together

             commendation = sustatikos meaning setting together

             recommended = paradidomi meaning to give beside

1.      Acts 14:23 “And when they had ordained them elders in every church (Lystra, Iconium and Antioch), and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.”

2.      Acts 14:26-27 “And thence Barnabas and Saul sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.  And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.”

3.      Acts 15:39-40 “And the contention (over John Mark) was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.”

4.      Acts 20:32 “And now brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”

5.      Romans 16:1 “I commend unto you Phoebe our sister, which is a servant (diakonos) of the church which is at Cenchrea: that ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business (pragma=deed) she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.”

6.      II Corinthians 3:1-2 “Do we begin again to commend ourselves?  Or need we, as some other, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?  Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men.”

7.      II Corinthians 10:18 “For not he that comendeth himself is approved (dokimos=tested, tried), but whom the Lord commendeth.


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