Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
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Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.
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But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.
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Follow after charity and earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, but above all, that ye may prophesy.
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Even so ye, forasmuch as ye desire the things of the Spirit, earnestly pursue excellence unto the edification of the congregation .
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Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that has nothing to be ashamed of, rightly dividing 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 reign, and he prepared chariots and horsemen for himself and fifty men to run before him.
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Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart has lifted thee up; glory in this, but tarry at home. Why should thou meddle in evil that thou should fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?
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Their inward thought is that their houses are eternal and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
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Thou who said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven; upon high next to the stars of God I will exalt my throne: and I will sit upon the mount of the testimony and in the sides of the north;
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What hast thou here? or whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here as he that hews himself out a sepulchre on a high place or that graves a habitation for himself in a rock?
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Even more than he who is given over to wine, the transposer, the proud man, shall not remain, who enlarges his desire as Sheol and is as death and cannot be satisfied, but gathered unto him all the Gentiles and heaps unto him all the peoples;
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How can ye believe, who take glory one from another, and seek not the glory that comes only from God?
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opposing and exalting himself against all that is called God, or divinity, so that he as God sits in the temple of God, making himself appear to be God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
And it came to pass after this that Absalom prepared himself chariots and horses and fifty men to run before him. And Absalom rose up early and stood beside the way of the gate; and when anyone that had a controversy came to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto them and said, Of what city art thou? And he said, Thy slave is of one of the tribes of Israel.
And Absalom would say, Oh, that I were made judge in the land, that everyone who has 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 dost thou desire? She said unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit the one on thy right hand and the other on the left in thy kingdom.
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Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
And they said, Go to, 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 was also a contention among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.
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