70 Bible Verses about Ambition
Want to know what the Bible says about Ambition? Here are 70 Bible verses about Ambition from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.
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Luke 9:25 NIV
What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit their very self?
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Matthew 23:12 NIV
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
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Matthew 6:33 NIV
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
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1 Timothy 6:9 NIV
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
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1 John 2:16 NIV
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
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James 4:1-2 NIV
4 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
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Philippians 2:4 NIV
not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
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John 5:44 NIV
How can you believe since you accept glory from one another but do not seek the glory that comes from the only God ?
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Romans 15:20 NIV
It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation.
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Philippians 2:3 NIV
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
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