9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

And He said to them, "Strive to enter in through the narrow door; because many, I say to you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you.

Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

So also ye, since ye are eager for spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them with a view to the edification of the assembly.

Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.

I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

Give diligence to present yourself approved to God, a workman not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.