14 Bible Verses about Worldly Ambition

Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor.

Wo to those touching house upon house, they will bring near field upon field, till no more place, and ye dwelt yourselves alone in the midst of the earth.

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me. If I did not place and rest my soul as a child weaned of his Mother: my soul as a weaned child.

For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud; As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he?read more.
As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him.

They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off.

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands. And man shall not abide in honor, being like as the beasts they perished. This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence.read more.
As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hades, for he will receive me. Silence. Thou shalt not fear when a man shall be enriched, and when the honor of his house shall be increased; For not in his dying shall he take anything: his honor shall not go down after him. For in his living he will praise his soul, (and he will praise thee for thou wilt do good to thyself,) It shall go even to the generation of his fathers; even forever they shall not see light Man in honor shall not understand; being like as the beasts, they perished.

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking.

How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north. I will go up upon the heights of the cloud: I will become like the Most High.read more.
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou wert lifted up in height, and he will give his foliage between the thick boughs, and his heart was lifted up in his height; And I will give him into the hand of the God of the nations; he shall do his doing to him: I drove him out for his injustice.

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples.

For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it. Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.

Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity.