9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

"Struggle to enter in by the narrow door," he answered, "for I tell you that many will try to enter and not be able,

Do you not know that in a foot-race, though all run, only one receives the prize? So run that you may win.

Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.

Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead,

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

Strive earnestly to present yourself unto God, tested and proved worthy by trial, a workman unashamed, ever cutting a straight path for the message of the truth.