Thematic Bible: Ambition

Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Verse Concepts

Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive. Verse Concepts

And be emulous of the better favors: and yet I shew you a way according to eminence. Verse Concepts

Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy. Verse Concepts

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound. Verse Concepts

Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before, I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.

Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth. Verse Concepts

And Adonijah, son of Haggith being lifted up, saying, I will reign; and he will make to himself chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. Verse Concepts

Striking, thou struckest Edom, and thy heart lifted thee up: be honored, and sit in thy house: and wherefore wilt thou contend with evil, and fall, thou and Judah with thee? Verse Concepts

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands. Verse Concepts

And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north. Verse Concepts

What to thee here, and who to thee here, that thou hewedst to thee here a tomb, he hewing from on high his tomb and cutting in a dwelling in a rock to himself? Verse Concepts

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples. Verse Concepts

In that hour came the disciples to Jesus, saying, Who is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens? Verse Concepts

And said, Truly I say to you, Except ye be turned, and become as young children, ye should not come into the kingdom of the heavens. Verse Concepts

But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them. Verse Concepts

And the greater of you shall be your servant. And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled; and whoever shall humble himself, shall be exalted.

How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north. I will go up upon the heights of the cloud: I will become like the Most High. read more.
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit

He loving transgression loves contention: he lifting up his gate seeks breaking. Verse Concepts

For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thou wert lifted up in height, and he will give his foliage between the thick boughs, and his heart was lifted up in his height; And I will give him into the hand of the God of the nations; he shall do his doing to him: I drove him out for his injustice.

For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment If his elevation shall go up to the heavens, and his head shall reach to the cloud; As his dung he shall perish forever: they seeing him shall say, Where is he? read more.
As a dream he shall fly away, and they shall not find him: and he shall flee away as the vision of the night The eye scanned him and shall not add; and his place shall no more look after him.

They were lifted up a little while, and they are not, and they were brought low; as all they will be drawn together, and as the head of an ear of grain they shall be cut off. Verse Concepts

The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands. And man shall not abide in honor, being like as the beasts they perished. This their way folly to them: and those after them will delight in their mouth. Silence. read more.
As sheep they were laid in hades; death shall rule over them, and the upright shall come down upon them in the morning; and their rock for falling away in hades from a dwelling to him. But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hades, for he will receive me. Silence. Thou shalt not fear when a man shall be enriched, and when the honor of his house shall be increased; For not in his dying shall he take anything: his honor shall not go down after him. For in his living he will praise his soul, (and he will praise thee for thou wilt do good to thyself,) It shall go even to the generation of his fathers; even forever they shall not see light Man in honor shall not understand; being like as the beasts, they perished.

How can ye believe, receiving glory from one another, and ye seek not the glory that from God alone? Verse Concepts

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Verse Concepts

And it will be from after this, and Absalom will make to him. chariots and horses, and fifty men running before him. And Absalom rose early and stood by the hand of the way of the gate: and it will be every man which shall be to him strife coming to the king for judgment, and Absalom will call to him and say, Where, from what city thou? And he will say, of one of the tribes of Israel is thy servant

And Absalom will say, Who will set me judge in the land? and to me shall every man come which shall be to him strife and judgment, and I did him justice. Verse Concepts

And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom. Verse Concepts

Woe to you, Pharisees! for ye love the first seat in assemblies, and greetings in market-places. Verse Concepts

Come, we will come down and mix their lip that they shall not hear a man the lip of his neighbor. Verse Concepts

Wo to those touching house upon house, they will bring near field upon field, till no more place, and ye dwelt yourselves alone in the midst of the earth. Verse Concepts

Who being opposed and lifted up above all called God, or which is worshipped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Verse Concepts

And Absalom took and set up for him in his living, a pillar in the valley of the king; for he said, Not to me a son to call my name to mind: and he will call the pillar by his name, and he will call it The Hand of Absalom, even to this day. Verse Concepts

And it will be from after this, and Absalom will make to him. chariots and horses, and fifty men running before him. And Absalom rose early and stood by the hand of the way of the gate: and it will be every man which shall be to him strife coming to the king for judgment, and Absalom will call to him and say, Where, from what city thou? And he will say, of one of the tribes of Israel is thy servant And Absalom will say to him, See, thy words good and straight, and none to hear to thee from the king. read more.
And Absalom will say, Who will set me judge in the land? and to me shall every man come which shall be to him strife and judgment, and I did him justice. And it was in a man's coming near to worship to him, and he stretched forth his hand and laid hold of him, and kissed him. And Absalom will do according to this word to all Israel who will come for judgment to the king: and Absalom will steal the heart of the men of Israel. And it will be from the end of forty years, and Absalom will say to the king, I will go now and complete my vow which I vowed to Jehovah in Hebron. For thy servant vowed a vow in my dwelling in Geshur in Aram, saying, If turning back, Jehovah shall turn me back to Jerusalem, and I served Jehovah. And the king will say to him, Go in peace. And he will rise and go to Hebron. And Absalom will send spies in all the tribes of Israel, saying, When ye heard the voice of the trumpet, and ye said, Absalom the king in Hebron. And with Absalom went two hundred men from Jerusalem, being called; going uprightly, and they knew not any word. And Absalom will send for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counsellor, from his city, from Giloh, in his sacrificing sacrifices. And the conspiracy will be strong; and the people went and a multitude with Absalom. And he announcing, will come to David, saying, The heart of the man Israel was after Absalom.

And Haman went forth in that day being glad and good of heart: and when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, and he rose not up and moved not himself for him, and Haman will be filled with wrath against Mordecai. And Haman will contain himself, and will go in to his house; and he will send and cause his friends to come, and Zeresh his wife. And Haman will recount to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all how the king magnified him, and how he lifted him up over the chiefs and servants of the king. read more.
And Haman will say also, Esther the queen caused none to come in with the king to the drinking which she made but me; and also to-morrow I am called to her with the king. And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.

And Haman will come in. And the king will say to him, What to be done for the man whom the king delighted in his honor? And Haman will say in his heart, To whom will the king delight to do honor more abundantly than me? And Haman will say to the king, The man whom the king delighted in his honor, They shall bring in the clothing of the kingdom which the king was clothed in, it and the horse which the king rode upon him, and the crown of the kingdom which was given upon his head: read more.
And giving the clothing and the horse to the hand of a man of the chiefs of the king, the nobles; and clothe the man which the king delighted in his honor, and cause him to ride upon the horse in the broad place of the city, and tall before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighted in his honor.

For thou didst spoil many nations, all the rest of the peoples shall spoil thee; from the bloods of man, and the violence of the land, of the city, and all dwelling in it. Wo! to him plundering an evil plunder to his house, to set his nest on high, to deliver from the hand of evil.

Wo! to him building a city with bloods, and preparing a city by iniquity. Verse Concepts

And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Say that these my two sons might sit, the one on thy right hand, and one on thy left, in thy kingdom. Verse Concepts

For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

By the hand of thy messengers thou didst reproach Jehovah, and thou wilt say, With the chariot of my horseman I came up upon the height of the mountains of the sides of Lebanon, and I said, I will cut off the height of the cedars and the chosen of its cypresses: and I will go in to the lodging-place of the extremity of the forest of its Carmel. Verse Concepts

Song of ascensions to David. O Jehovah, my heart was not lifted up, and mine eyes were not exalted, and I went not in great things and in wonders above me. If I did not place and rest my soul as a child weaned of his Mother: my soul as a weaned child.

And they will say, Come, we will build to us a city, and a tower, its head to the heavens; and we will make to us a name, lest we shall be dispersed over the face of the earth. Verse Concepts

And also if a proud man transgressing by wine, and he will not rest; who enlarged his soul as hades, and he as death, and he will not be satisfied, and he will gather to him all nations, and he will collect to him all peoples. Verse Concepts

What to thee here, and who to thee here, that thou hewedst to thee here a tomb, he hewing from on high his tomb and cutting in a dwelling in a rock to himself? Verse Concepts

And they will say, Come, we will build to us a city, and a tower, its head to the heavens; and we will make to us a name, lest we shall be dispersed over the face of the earth. Verse Concepts

And they will say, Did Jehovah only now speak by Moses? Did he not also speak by us? And Jehovah will hear. Verse Concepts

And they will gather together against Moses, and against Aaron, and they will say to them, Much to you for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah in the midst of them: and wherefore shall be lifted up over the gathering of Jehovah? Verse Concepts

How thou fallest from the heavens, brilliant star, son of the morning! thou wert cut off to the earth, overthrowing upon the nations! And thou saidst in thy heart, I will go up to the heavens; from above to the stars of God I will lift up my throne, and I will sit upon the mountain of appointment in the thighs of the north. I will go up upon the heights of the cloud: I will become like the Most High. read more.
But to hades shalt thou come down, to the thighs of the pit

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members Ye eagerly desire, and have not: ye kill, and are zealous, and cannot succeed: ye fight and wage war, and ye have not, because ye ask not.

And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater. Verse Concepts

And they will gather together against Moses, and against Aaron, and they will say to them, Much to you for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah in the midst of them: and wherefore shall be lifted up over the gathering of Jehovah? And Moses will hear, and will fall upon his face: And he will speak to Korah and to all his assembly, saying, The morning Jehovah will make known who is to him, and the holy; and bring near to him: and whom he will choose for him he will bring near to himself. read more.
This do ye: take to you censers, Korah and all his assembly: And ye shall give fire in them and put upon them incense, before Jehovah to-morrow: and it was the man whom Jehovah shall choose, he is holy: much to you, ye sons of Levi. And Moses will say to Korah, Hear, now, ye sons of Levi: Is this small for you that the God of Israel separated you from the assembly of Israel to bring you near to him to serve the services of the dwelling of Jehovah, and to stand before the assembly to serve them? He will bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and did ye seek also the priesthood? For this thou and all thine assembly being collected together against Jehovah: and Aaron, what is he that ye shall murmur against him? And Moses will send to call for Dathan and for Abiram, sons of Eliab and they will say, We will not come up. Is this small that thou broughtest us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou ruling also wilt rule over us? But not to a land flowing with milk and honey didst thou bring us; and wilt thou give to us the inheritance of field and vineyard? the eyes of these men wilt thou bore out? we will not come up. And it will be kindled to Moses greatly, and he will say to Jehovah, Thou wilt not turn to their gift: not one ass did I take from them, and I did not evil to one of them. And Moses will say to Korah, Be thou and all thine assembly before Jehovah, thou and they, and Aaron, to-morrow: And take each his censer and put incense upon them, and bring them near before Jehovah, each his censer and put incense upon them, and bring them near before Jehovah, each his censer, fifty and two hundred censers; and thou and Aaron, each his censer. And they will take each his censer and will give upon them fire, and will put incense upon them, and they will stand at the door of the tent of appointment, and Moses and Aaron. And Korah will gather against them all the assembly at the door of the tent of appointment; and the glory of Jehovah will be seen to all the assembly. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, and to Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from the midst of this assembly, and I will consume them as in a moment, And they shall fall upon their faces, and they will say, God, the God of the spirits for all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be angry against all the assembly. And Jehovah will speak to Moses, saying, Speak to all the assembly, saying, Go up from round about the dwelling of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses will rise up and go to Dathan and Abiram; and the old men of Israel will go after him. And he will speak to the assembly, saying, Remove, now, from the tents of these guilty men, and ye shall not touch upon any thing which is to them lest ye shall he destroyed in all their sin. And they will go up from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, from round about; and Dathan and Abiram will come forth, standing at the door of their tents, and their wives and their sons and their little ones. And Moses will say, By this shall ye know that Jehovah sent me to do all these works; for not from my heart If according to the death of all men these shall die, if the providence of all men shall be reviewed upon them, Jehovah sent me not And if Jehovah shall create a creation, and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and all which is to them, and they went down living to hades; and ye know that these men rejected Jehovah, And it shall be as he finished to speak all these words, the earth shall cleave asunder which is under them: And the earth shall open her mouth and shall swallow them and their houses, and all the men which to Korah, and all the possessions. And they went down, and all which is to them, living, to hades, and the earth shall cover over them; and they shall perish from the midst of the gathering. And all Israel which were round about them fled at their voice: for they said, Lest the earth shall swallow us. And a fire will come forth from Jehovah and will consume the fifty and two hundred men bringing the incense

And they will say, Did Jehovah only now speak by Moses? Did he not also speak by us? And Jehovah will hear. And the man Moses greatly humble, more than all the men upon the face of the earth. And Jehovah will say in a moment to Moses and to Aaron and to Miriam, Come forth ye three unto the tent of appointment And they three will come forth. read more.
And Jehovah will come down in the pillar of the cloud, and will stand at the door of the tent, and will call Aaron and Miriam, and they two will come forth. And he will say, Hear ye now, my word: If there shall be your prophet of Jehovah, in a vision I will be known to him; in a dream I will speak to him. Not so my servant Moses; he was faithful in all my house. Mouth to mouth I will speak to him, and in appearance and not in enigmas; and the portion of Jehovah shall he behold: and wherefore were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses? And the anger of Jehovah will kindle against them; and he will go. And the cloud removed from the tent; and behold, Miriam being leprous as snow: and Aaron will look upon Miriam, and behold, her being leprous

I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, seeking the superiority over them, receives us not. Verse Concepts

I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, seeking the superiority over them, receives us not. Therefore, if I should come, I will put him in mind of his works which he does, talking silly against us with evil words: and not being satisfied in these, neither does he himself receive the brethren, and hinders those being willing, and casts out of the church.

By the hand of thy messengers thou didst reproach Jehovah, and thou wilt say, With the chariot of my horseman I came up upon the height of the mountains of the sides of Lebanon, and I said, I will cut off the height of the cedars and the chosen of its cypresses: and I will go in to the lodging-place of the extremity of the forest of its Carmel. Verse Concepts

And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not done, and he will saddle the ass and rise and go to his house to his city, and command his house, and he will strangle himself and die. And he will be buried in the grave of his father. Verse Concepts

And Abimelech son of Jerubbaal, will come to Shechem to his mother's brethren, and say to them, to all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying, Speak, now, in the ears of all the lords of Shechem, What good to you for seventy men of all the sons of Jerubbaal to rule over you, or one man to rule over you? and remember that I am your bone and your flesh. And his mother's brethren will speak concerning him in the ears of all the lords of Shechem all these words: and their heart will incline after Abimelech; for they said, He is our brother. read more.
And they will give him seventy of silver from the house of Baal of the covenant, and Abimelech will hire with them men empty and vain-glorious, and they will go after him. And he will come to his father's house at Ophrah, and will kill his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men upon one stone: and Jotham the young son of Jerubbaal will be left, for he was hid. And all the lords of Shechem will gather together, and all the House of the Rampart, and they will make Abimelech king, by the Oak of the Pillar which is in Shechem.

For God is knowing in the day of your eating from it, and your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil. And the woman will see that the tree is good for food, and that it is a desire to the eyes, and a tree desired to make wise; and she will take from its fruit and will eat, and will give also to her man with her, and he will eat

And Jehoash king of Israel will send to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thorn-bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, Thou shalt give thy daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast of the field which was in Lebanon will pass by and will tread down the thorn-bush. Verse Concepts

Is this small that thou broughtest us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou ruling also wilt rule over us? Verse Concepts