Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.
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But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
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Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy.
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So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts , seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.
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Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
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Their inward thought is, that their houses'shall continue for ever, And their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
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And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
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What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
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Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous, a haughty man, that keepeth not at home; who enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all peoples.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?
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he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The mother of james and john
And he said unto her, What wouldest thou? She saith unto him, Command that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand, and one on thy left hand, in thy kingdom.
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Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.
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