8 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

Agonize to enter in through the narrow gate: because many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Do you not know that those running in the stadium, indeed all run, and one receives the prize? So run, that you may receive it.

Follow after divine love; and seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.

So also you, since you are zealots of spirits, seek that you may abound unto the edification of the church.

Brethren, I do not consider that I have yet received it;

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Study to present yourself to God approved, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.