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 did command you,

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

have ye not known that those running in a race -- all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --

to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

be diligent to present thyself approved to God -- a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;