14 Bible Verses about Worldly Ambition

Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Woe to those who add house to house
and join field to field
until there is no more room
and you alone are left in the land.

A Davidic song of ascents.Lord, my heart is not proud;
my eyes are not haughty.
I do not get involved with things
too great or too difficult for me.
Instead, I have calmed and quieted myself
like a little weaned child with its mother;
I am like a little child.

the joy of the wicked has been brief
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
Though his arrogance reaches heaven,
and his head touches the clouds,
he will vanish forever like his own dung.
Those who know him will ask, “Where is he?”
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He will fly away like a dream and never be found;
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
The eye that saw him will see him no more,
and his household will no longer see him.

They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone;
they are brought low and shrivel up like everything else.
They wither like heads of grain.

Their graves are their eternal homes,
their homes from generation to generation,
though they have named estates after themselves.
But despite his assets, man will not last;
he is like the animals that perish. This is the way of those who are arrogant,
and of their followers,
who approve of their words.Selah
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Like sheep they are headed for Sheol;
Death will shepherd them.
The upright will rule over them in the morning,
and their form will waste away in Sheol,
far from their lofty abode.
But God will redeem my life
from the power of Sheol,
for He will take me.Selah Do not be afraid when a man gets rich,
when the wealth of his house increases.
For when he dies, he will take nothing at all;
his wealth will not follow him down.
Though he praises himself during his lifetime—
and people praise you when you do well for yourself—
he will go to the generation of his fathers;
they will never see the light.
A man with valuable possessions
but without understanding
is like the animals that perish.

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you? You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.

One who loves to offend loves strife;
one who builds a high threshold invites injury.

Shining morning star,
how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
You said to yourself:
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.
I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
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But you will be brought down to Sheol
into the deepest regions of the Pit.

“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height, I determined to hand it over to a ruler of nations; he would surely deal with it. I banished it because of its wickedness.

Moreover, wine betrays;
an arrogant man is never at rest.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
and like Death he is never satisfied.
He gathers all the nations to himself;
he collects all the peoples for himself.

Since you have plundered many nations,
all the peoples who remain will plunder you—
because of human bloodshed
and violence against lands, cities,
and all who live in them. Woe to him who dishonestly makes
wealth for his house
to place his nest on high,
to escape from the reach of disaster!

Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
and founds a town with injustice!