9 Bible Verses about Holy Ambition

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

Strive with earnestness 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 they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.

Follow after love, and be emulous of spiritual manifestations, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Thus ye also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

Brethren, I do not count to have got possession myself; but one thing forgetting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before,

I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.

Strive diligently to present thyself approved to God, a workman that has not to be ashamed, cutting in a straight line the word of truth.