Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
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Do you not know that those running in a race all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain.
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But zealously strive after the better gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.
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Follow after charity and desire spiritual things, but rather that you may prophesy.
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Even so you, since you are zealots of spiritual things, seek to build up the church, in order that you may abound
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My brothers, I do not count myself to have taken possession, but one thing I do, forgetting the things behind and reaching forward to the things before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Study earnestly to present yourself approved to God, a workman that does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
And Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king. And he prepared himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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You have indeed stricken Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Rejoice and stay at home, for why should you meddle to your harm, so that you should fall, you and Judah with you?
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Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.
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For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.
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What is to you here? And who is here to you, that you have carved out a tomb for yourself here, as one who cuts himself out a tomb on high, who cuts out a home for himself in a rock?
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And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How can you believe, you who receive honor from one another and do not seek the honor that comes from God only?
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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself forth, that he is God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
And it happened after this, 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 it was so, if any man had a suit to come before the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him and said, What city are you from? And he said, Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.
And Absalom said, Oh that I might be made judge in the land, so that every man who has any suit or cause might come to 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 to her, What do you desire? She said to Him, Grant that these my two sons may sit in Your kingdom, the one on Your right hand and the other on the left.
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Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief 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, Come, let us build us a city and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered upon the face of the whole earth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
And there was also a dispute among them as to which of them seems to be greater.
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