9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition
Most Relevant Verses
and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed 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? So run that you may obtain it.
But earnestly desire the higher 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 with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. 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 worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
