Thematic Bible: Holy ambition, general references to
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"You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed,
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Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
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But you must cultivate the higher endowments.
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You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.
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So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.
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Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead, I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
Do your best to win God's approval as a workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, but rightly shapes the message of truth.
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