'Approval' in the Bible

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.