Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,
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Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
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But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
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Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.
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In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound.
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Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
Now Adonijah the son of Haggith was exalting himself, saying, "I will be king," so he prepared for himself a chariot and horsemen and fifty men running before him.
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You have indeed defeated Edom and your heart is lifted up; enjoy the honor and stay home. Why should you provoke trouble so that you fall and Judah with you?"
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Within them [they think] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name} [their] lands by their [own] names.
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And you yourself said in your heart, 'I will ascend [to] heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on [the] mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;
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'What {business do you have} here, and who {do you have} here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave [on] the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?
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{How much less} the defiant; [the] arrogant, treacherous man? He who broadens his throat like Sheol, and who, like death, is not satisfied, and who gathers to himself all the nations, and harvested for himself all the peoples, will not succeed.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?
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who opposes and who exalts himself over every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits down in the temple of God, proclaiming that he himself is God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
It happened afterward that Absalom made himself a chariot with horses and fifty men running before him. Absalom used to rise early in the morning, and he stood {beside} the road [at] the gate; {anyone} who had a legal dispute to bring to the king for judgment Absalom would call to him and say, "{Where are you from?}" And he would say, "Your servant [is] from one of the tribes of Israel."
Then Absalom would say, "{Oh, that someone would} appoint me as judge in the land, that {anyone} might come to me who had a legal dispute or a case, and I would give him justice."
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The mother of james and john
And he said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Say that these two sons of mine may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your kingdom."
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Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
And they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top [reaches to] the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth."
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
And a dispute also occurred among them as to which of them was recognized as being greatest.
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