Topic
Commend
17 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 12:15ISBE
The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.
- Psalms 31:5ISBE
Into thine hand I commit my spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.
- Proverbs 12:8ISBE
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
- Luke 16:8ISBE
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
- Luke 23:46ISBE
¶ And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
- Romans 3:5ISBE
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speak as a man)
- Romans 5:8ISBE
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
- Romans 16:1ISBE
I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
- 1 Corinthians 8:8ISBE
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.
- 2 Corinthians 3:1ISBE
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?
- 2 Corinthians 4:2ISBE
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
- 2 Corinthians 6:4ISBE
But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,
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- 2 Corinthians 10:12 ISBE
- 2 Corinthians 10:18 ISBE
- 1 Timothy 6:20 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:12 ISBE
- 2 Timothy 1:14 ISBE
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 17 references
ko-mend':
(1) For paratithemi (Lu 23:46), translating the Hebrew paqadh (Ps 31:5), in the dying words of Jesus: "Into thy hands I commend my Spirit." the King James Version in Psalms has the more general word "commit." The use of the Greek word in the sense of "deposit what belongs to one into the hands of another" is not uncommon in the classics. So also the derivatives paratheke (2Ti 1:12) and parakatatheke (1Ti 6:20; 2Ti 1:14). See DEPOSIT. This sense of the English, while slightly archaic, corresponds to the first meaning of the Latin, whence it comes, "to commit for preservation," especially of the dying; to commend children, parents, etc., to the care of others (for examples, see Harper's Latin Dictionary).
(2) For sunistiemi, "to stand together," and then, by standing together, to establish, prove, exhibit, as "righteousness" and "love of God" (Ro 3:5; 5:8), and thus to attest (2Co 3:1; 4:2), and, finally, to certify or to recommend a stranger (Ro 16:1; 2Co 6:4). The use of paristemi in 1Co 8:8 is equivalent.
(3) "To praise," epaineo (Lu 16:8), and sunistemi in 2Co 10:12,18; for the Old Testament, Hebrew hillel, in Ge 12:15 the King James Version; Pr 12:8.
H. E. Jacobs
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.