9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition
Most Relevant Verses
also, endeavour to live quietly, attend to your own business, and ??as we charged you ??work with your hands,
"Strive to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in and not be able,
Do you not know that in a race, though all run, only one man gains the prize? Run so as to win the prize.
Set your hearts on the higher talents. And yet I will go on to show you a still higher path.
Make love your aim, and then set your heart on the spiritual gifts ??especially upon prophecy.
So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.
Brothers, I for one do not consider myself to have appropriated this; my one thought is, by forgetting what lies behind me and straining to what lies before me,
to press on to the goal for the prize of God's high call in Christ Jesus.
Do your utmost to let God see that you at least are a sound workman, with no need to be ashamed of the way you handle the word of the Truth.