9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,

Strive to enter in at the narrow gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in and shall not be able.

Know ye not that those who run in a race indeed all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that ye may obtain it.

But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.

Follow after charity and earnestly pursue spiritual gifts, but above all, that ye may prophesy.

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye desire the things of the Spirit, earnestly pursue excellence unto the edification of the congregation .

Brethren, I do not reckon to have laid hold of it yet, but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and extending myself unto those things which are ahead,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that has nothing to be ashamed of, rightly dividing the word of truth.