19 Bible Verses about Ambition, positive aspects of

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front, I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

Then indeed I shall know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and all that it means to share his sufferings,

"Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,

It is for that I toil, struggling with all the energy which he inspires and which works powerfully within me.

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;

Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.

Seeing, therefore, that there is on every side of us such a throng of witnesses, let us also lay aside everything that hinders us, and the sin that clings about us, and run with patient endurance the race that lies before us,

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow till you attain Salvation--

Therefore, dear friends, in expectation of these things, make every effort to be found by him spotless, blameless, and at peace.

And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the Church.

Strive for the greater gifts. Yet I can still show you a way beyond all comparison the best.

How true is that saying! When a man aspires to be a Presiding-Officer in the Church, he is ambitious for a noble task.

Yet always with the ambition to tell the Good News where Christ's name had not previously been heard, so as to avoid building upon another man's foundations.

If I tell the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for I can but do so. Woe is me if I do not tell it!

It is true that some do proclaim the Christ out of Jealousy and opposition; but there are others who proclaim him from good- will. The latter do it from love for me, knowing that I have been appointed to plead the cause of the Good News. The former spread the news of the Christ in a factious spirit, and not sincerely, thinking to add to the pain of my chains.read more.
But what of that? Only that in some way or other, either with assumed or with real earnestness, Christ is being made known; and at that I rejoice.

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading. I, therefore, run with no uncertain aim. I box-not like a man hitting the air.read more.
No, I bruise my body and make it my slave, lest I, who have called others to the contest, should myself be rejected.

And now the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just Judge, will give me on 'That Day'--and not only to me, but to all who have loved his Appearing.

Do not, therefore, abandon the confidence that you have gained, for it has a great reward awaiting it. You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.