'Approval' in the Bible

And the angel said to her, Have no fear, Mary, for you have God's approval.

Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers, because they [actually] killed them, and you repair or build their tombs.

Another one said, ‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.’

And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.

I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

(He had not given his approval to their decision or their acts), of Arimathaea, a town of the Jews, who was waiting for the kingdom of God:

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

Whoever receives His testimony has set his seal [of approval] to this: God is true [and he knows that God cannot lie].

I have come in My Father’s name and with His power, and you do not receive Me [because your minds are closed]; but if another comes in his own name and with no authority or power except his own, you will receive him and give your approval to an imposter.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

for they loved the approval of men rather than the approval of God.

Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,

Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.

The statement found approval with the whole congregation; and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch.

And made him free from all his troubles, and gave him wisdom and the approval of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and all his house.

And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria.

Thereupon it was decided by the Apostles and Elders, with the approval of the whole Church, to choose suitable persons from among themselves and send them to Antioch, with Paul and Barnabas. Judas, called Bar-sabbas, and Silas, leading men among the brethren, were selected,

And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death.

But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.

Because the work of the law is seen in their hearts, their sense of right and wrong giving witness to it, while their minds are at one time judging them and at another giving them approval;

For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have its approval.

Let not him who takes food have a low opinion of him who does not: and let not him who does not take food be a judge of him who does; for he has God's approval.

And he who in these things is Christ's servant, is pleasing to God and has the approval of men.

The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.

But he who is uncertain [about eating a particular thing] is condemned if he eats, because he is not acting from faith. Whatever is not from faith is sin [whatever is done with doubt is sinful].

Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

But I give blows to my body, and keep it under control, for fear that, after having given the good news to others, I myself might not have God's approval.

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

For divisions are necessary among you, in order that those who have God's approval may be clearly seen among you.

If you forgive anyone anything, I too forgive [that one]; and what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of [and with the approval of] Christ,

Do we seem to be again attempting to put ourselves in the right? or have we need, as some have, of letters of approval to you or from you?

And we have given up the secret things of shame, not walking in false ways, and not making use of the word of God with deceit; but by the revelation of what is true, as before God, we have the approval of every man's sense of right and wrong.

We are not again requesting your approval, but we are giving you the chance of taking pride in us, so that you may be able to give an answer to those whose glory is in seeming, and not in the heart.

On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;

For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

For the business has been so ordered by us as to have the approval, not only of the Lord, but of men.

For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.

Am I now trying to win the approval of people or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be the Messiah's servant.

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;

Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

But even as the good news was given to us by the approval of God, so we give it out; not as pleasing men, but God by whom our hearts are tested.

And without argument, great is the secret of religion: He who was seen in the flesh, who was given God's approval in the spirit, was seen by the angels, of whom the good news was given among the nations, in whom the world had faith, who was taken up in glory.

Let it be your care to get the approval of God, as a workman who has no cause for shame, giving the true word in the right way.

But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.

[and besides this evidence] God also testifying with them [confirming the message of salvation], both by signs and wonders and by various miracles [carried out by Jesus and the apostles] and by [granting to believers the] gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

By faith our ancestors won approval.

By faith Abel made a better offering to God than Cain, and he had witness through it of his righteousness, God giving his approval of his offering: and his voice still comes to us through it though he is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken away without experiencing death. He could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he won approval as one who pleased God.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.

What good does it do if, when you sin, you patiently receive punishment for it? But if you suffer for doing good and receive it patiently, you have God's approval.

For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall:

Demetrius has the approval of all men and of what is true: and we give the same witness, and you are certain that our witness is true.