Acts 13:22
Then he removed him and raised David up to be their king, bearing this testimony to him: 'I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my own heart, who will do all that I desire.'
Acts 7:46
He won the approval of God and begged to be allowed to provide a dwelling for the God of Jacob,
Acts 15:8
And God who knows men's hearts testified for them by giving them the holy Spirit just as he had done to us,
Hebrews 11:4-5
Faith made Abel's sacrifice greater in the sight of God than Cain's; through faith he gained God's approval as an upright man, for God himself approved his offering, and through faith even when he was dead he still spoke.