19 Bible Verses about Ambition, positive aspects of

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

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.

I want to know him in the power of resurrection, and to share his sufferings and even his death,

"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,

That is what I am working for, fighting with all the energy with which he so mightily endows me.

in striving to live quietly and mind your own affairs, and work with your hands, as we directed you,

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.

Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,

and like new-born babes crave the pure spiritual milk that will make you grow up to salvation,

Therefore, dear friends, while waiting for this, make every effort to be found by him unstained, irreproachable, and at peace.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

But you must cultivate the higher endowments.

This is a trustworthy saying. Whoever aspires to the office of superintendent sets his heart on a fine work.

In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

As far as preaching the good news is concerned, that is nothing for me to boast of, for I cannot help doing it. For I am ruined if I do not preach.

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching the Christ from jealousy and partisanship, but there are others who are doing it out of good-will. These latter do it from love for me, for they know that God has put me where I am to defend our right to preach the good news. But the others are preaching the Christ not sincerely but for their own ends, imagining that they are making my imprisonment harder to bear.read more.
But what difference does it make? All that matters is that, in one way or another, from false motives or honest ones, Christ is being made known; I am glad of that. Yes, and I expect to be glad,

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. Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither. So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.read more.
But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

Now the crown of uprightness awaits me, which the Lord, the upright judge, will award me on that Day, and not only me but also all who have loved and hoped for his appearing.

You must not lose your courage, for it will be richly rewarded, but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.