'Approved' in the Bible

Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.

For the one who serves Christ in this [way] [is] well-pleasing to God and approved by people.

Greet Apelles, who [is] approved in Christ. Greet those of the [household] of Aristobulus.

For indeed it is necessary that there be factions among you, in order that those who are approved may become evident among you.

For it is not the one commending himself who is approved, but [the one] whom the Lord commends.

Now we pray to God that you not do wrong in any way, not that we are seen as approved, but that you do what is good, even [though] we are [seen] as though unqualified.

but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, thus we speak, not as pleasing people but God, who examines our hearts.

Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path.

For by this the people of old were approved.

By faith Abel offered to God a greater sacrifice than Cain, by which he was approved that he was righteous, [because] God approved [him] for his gifts, and through it he still speaks, [although he] is dead.

By faith Enoch was taken up, so that he did not experience death, and he was not found, because God took him up. For before his removal, he had been approved {as having been pleasing} to God.

And [although they] all were approved through their faith, they did not receive what was promised,

Blessed [is] the person who endures testing, because [when he] is approved he will receive the crown of life that he has promised to those who love him.