9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.

"Exert every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.

Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.