9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;

"Strive to go in by the small door. Many, I tell you, will seek to go in, but they will not be able,

Do not you know that on a race-course, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.

Strive for the greater gifts. Yet I can still show you a way beyond all comparison the best.

Seek this Love earnestly, and strive for spiritual gifts, above all for the gift of preaching.

And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the Church.

For I, Brothers, do not regard myself as having yet laid hold of it. But this one thing I do--forgetting what lies behind, and straining every nerve for that which lies in front,

I press on to the goal, to gain the prize of that heavenward Call which God gave me through Christ Jesus.

Do your utmost to show yourself true to God, a workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of the Truth.