'Approval' in the Bible

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.

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.