9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;

Exert all your powers to enter through the strait gate: for many, I tell you, will seek to enter, but will not be able.

Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.

But zealously seek the gifts that are the best: and yet I shew unto you a more transcendently excellent way.

FOLLOW earnestly after love, and zealously seek spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

So also ye, if ye zealously affect spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them for the edification of the church.

Brethren, I count not myself to have overtaken it; but this one object I pursue, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching out to those which are before,

I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

Be diligent to present thyself before God approved, a workman that need not blush, rightly dividing the word of truth.