Thematic Bible: Ambition, worldly, examples of
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Holy ambition, general references to
'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
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have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;
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and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:
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Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
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so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;
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brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth -- to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Adonijah
And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, 'I do reign;' and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,
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Thou hast certainly smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up; be honoured, and abide in thy house; and why dost thou stir thyself up in evil, that thou hast fallen, thou, and Judah with thee?'
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Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.
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And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
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What -- to thee here? And who -- to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here -- a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself.
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And also, because the wine is treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The jews
how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?
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who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God -- the day doth not come.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Absalom
And it cometh to pass afterwards, that Absalom prepareth for himself a chariot, and horses, and fifty men are running before him; and Absalom hath risen early, and stood by the side of the way of the gate, and it cometh to pass, every man who hath a pleading to come unto the king for judgment, that Absalom calleth unto him, and saith, 'Of what city art thou?' and he saith, 'Of one of the tribes of Israel is thy servant.'
And Absalom saith, 'Who doth make me a judge in the land, that unto me doth come every man who hath a plea and judgment? -- then I have declared him righteous.'
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The mother of james and john
and he said to her, 'What wilt thou?' She saith to him, 'Say, that they may sit -- these my two sons -- one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'
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'Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » Men after the flood
And they say, 'Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'
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Ambition » Ambition, worldly, examples of » The disciples
And there happened also a strife among them -- who of them is accounted to be greater.
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