Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,
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Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
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But you must cultivate the higher endowments.
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You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.
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So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.
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Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?
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the adversary of every being that is called a god or an object of worship, and so overbearing toward them as to enter God's sanctuary and take his seat there, proclaiming himself to be God??5 do you not remember that when I was with you, I used to tell you this?
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The mother of james and john
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Give orders that these two sons of mine sit one at your right and one at your left, when you are king!"
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Alas for you Pharisees! For you love to have the front seat in the synagogues and to be saluted with respect in public places.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
A dispute also arose among them, as to which one of them ought to be considered the greatest.
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