9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition
Most Relevant Verses
And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you;
Strive earnestly to enter through the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Do ye not know that they running in a race-course, all truly run, and one receives the prize of combat? Do ye so run, that ye might receive.
And be emulous of the better favors: and yet I shew you a way according to eminence.
Pursue love, and be emulous of spiritual things, and rather that ye might prophesy.
So also ye, since ye are zealous of spirits, for the building up of the church seek that ye may abound.
Brethren, I reckon not myself to have been overtaken: but one, truly forgetting things behind, and stretching still farther to things before,
I pursue toward the scope for the prize of combat of the calling above of God in Christ Jesus.
Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.