Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
"Strain every nerve to force your way in through the narrow gate," He answered; "for multitudes, I tell you, will endeavour to find a way in and will not succeed.
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Do you not know that in the foot-race the runners all run, but that only one gets the prize? You must run like him, in order to win with certainty.
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But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.
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Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order that you may prophesy.
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Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.
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Brethren, I do not imagine that I have yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting everything which is past and stretching forward to what lies in front of me, with my eyes fixed on the goal I push on to secure the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.
Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
How is it possible for you to believe, while you receive glory from one another and have no desire for the glory that comes from the only God?
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and exalts himself above, every so-called 'god' or object of worship, and goes the length of taking his seat in the very temple of God, giving it out that he himself is 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 desire?" He asked. "Command," she replied, "that these my two sons may sit one at your right hand and one at your left in your Kingdom."
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Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
There arose also a dispute among them which of them should be regarded as greatest.
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