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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