9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you:

strive to enter in at the narrow gate: for I declare unto you, that many shall try to get in, and shall not be able.

You know, that in a race, tho' all run, but one receives the prize: so run, that you may obtain.

you are contesting about the superiority of your gifts: but I point out to you a more excellent way.

Cultivate social virtue; then desire spiritual gifts, but chiefly that of explaining the prophetical writings.

But since there is emulation among you concerning spiritual gifts, seek to abound in the exercise of such gifts as tend most to the edification of the church.

I don't imagine, my brethren, that I am arriv'd at the goal; but this I do, unmindful of what is pass'd, I stretch towards that which is in view,

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

endeavour to approve yourself to God, as an artist that is not afraid of reproach, by rightly explaining the word of truth.