9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition
Most Relevant Verses
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told 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 in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
So it is with you; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in building up the church.
Brethren, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
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