9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

Strive to enter in by the narrow door: for many, I say unto you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.

Know ye not that they that run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? Even so run; that ye may attain.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy.

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts , seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

Brethren, I could not myself yet to have laid hold: but one thing I do , forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before,

I press on toward the goal unto the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Give diligence to present thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, handling aright the word of truth.