'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: