9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

Strive to enter in through the narrow door; for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Know ye not, that of those who run in the racecourse all run, but one receiveth the prize? Thus run, that ye may obtain.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And furthermore I show you by far the most excellent way.

Strive to possess love; and desire earnestly the spiritual gifts, but especially that of prophesying.

So also ye, since ye are eager to possess spiritual gifts, be earnest to abound in them to the edification of the church.

Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things that are behind, and stretching forth to the things that are before,

I press toward the mark for the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.