'Approval' in the Bible
The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];God, our God, blesses us.
Restore us, O God;Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.
Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.
Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.
Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.
And said the wives, “When we were burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and were pouring out drink offerings to her, was it without [the knowledge and approval of] our husbands that we made cakes [in the shape of a star] to represent her and pour out drink offerings to her?”
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.’
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.
for they loved the approval of men more than the approval of God.
For [civil] authorities are not a source of fear for [people of] good behavior, but for [those who do] evil. Do you want to be unafraid of authority? Do what is good and you will receive approval and commendation.
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].
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,
[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.
And all of these, though they gained [divine] approval through their faith, did not receive [the fulfillment of] what was promised,