Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
Thematic Bible
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.
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Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.
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But earnestly desire the greater gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
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Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
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So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church.
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Brothers, I do not regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to the things which are ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Do your best to present yourself approved by God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, properly handling 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 be king." So he prepared for himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.
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You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you should fall, even you, and Judah with you?'"
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Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
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You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north.
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'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock."
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Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty man who doesn't stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can't be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
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he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
It happened after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him. Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. It was so, that when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, "What city are you from?" He said, "Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel."
Absalom said moreover, "Oh that I were made judge in the land, 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
He said to her, "What do you want?" She said to him, "Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom."
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Woe to you Pharisees. For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
They said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth."
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.
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