9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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

Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.

But seek earnestly the best gifts; and yet I show you a more excellent way.

Cultivate love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

So, also, do you, since you greatly desire spiritual gifts, seek to excel to the building up of the church.

Brethren, I do not conclude that I have already laid hold:

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Strive to present yourself to God as approved, a workman that has no cause to be ashamed, rightly setting forth the word of truth.