9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

“Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

But earnestly desire the greater gifts.And I show you a still more excellent way.

Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.

Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.