9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

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

But earnestly desire the greater gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the church.

Brothers, I do not regard myself as yet having taken hold, but one thing I do. Forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to the things which are ahead,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Do your best to present yourself approved by God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.