Thematic Bible: Holy ambition, general references to
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"You must struggle on to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you, many will try to get in, but will not succeed,
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Do you not know that in a race the runners all run, but only one can get the prize? You must run in such a way that you can get the prize.
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But you must earnestly continue to cultivate your higher spiritual gifts. And yet I will show you a way that is better by far:
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Keep on pursuing love, but still keep cultivating your spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophesying.
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So, as you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, you must keep trying to excel for the upbuilding of the church.
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Brothers, I do not think that I have captured it yet, but here is my one aspiration, so forgetting what is behind me and reaching out for what is ahead of me, I am pressing onward toward the goal, to win the prize to which God through Jesus Christ is calling us upward.
Do your best to present yourself to God an approved workman who has nothing to be ashamed of, who properly presents the message of truth.
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