Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,
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Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.
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Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.
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Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.
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So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.
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Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
"How can you believe when you receive glory from, one another, and have no desire for the glory which comes from the only God?
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the adversary, who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God, or is an object of worship; so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God, and vaunts himself as God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The mother of james and john
"What is it you wish?" he said. She answered, "Command that these my two sons may sit upon your right hand and your left in your kingdom."
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"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
And there arose also a dispute among them as to which of them could be considered the greatest,
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