9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

Do you not know that those who run in the stadium all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.

In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Make every effort to present yourself approved to God, a worker having no need to be ashamed, guiding the word of truth along a straight path.