Bible verses about "ambition" | Goodspeed

²⁶ For what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but parts with his life? What can a man give to buy back his life?

⁵ They do everything they do to have men see it. They wear wide Scripture texts as charms, and they wear large tassels, ⁶ and they like the best places at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues, ⁷ and to be saluted with respect in public places, and to have men call them 'Rabbi.'

⁸ Again the devil took him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, ⁹ and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' "

¹⁶ Live in harmony with one another. Do not be too ambitious, but accept humble tasks. Do not be conceited.

²⁰ In all this it has been my ambition to preach the good news only where Christ's name was unknown, so as not to build on foundations other men had laid.

⁸ Take care that nobody exploits you through the pretensions of philosophy, guided by human tradition, following material ways of looking at things, instead of following Christ.

² You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them.

⁴⁴ Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

⁴ Do not take account of your own interests, but of the interests of others as well.

¹ What causes wars and fights among you? Is it not your cravings, which are at war within your bodies? ² You crave things, and cannot have them, and so you commit murder. You covet things, and cannot get them, and so you quarrel and fight. You do not have things because you do not ask for them.

⁹ But men who want to get rich fall into temptations and snares and many foolish, harmful cravings, that plunge people into destruction and ruin.

¹⁶ for all that there is in the world, the things that our physical nature and our eyes crave, and the proud display of life—these do not come from the Father, but from the world;

¹² Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

³³ But you must make his kingdom, and uprightness before him, your greatest care, and you will have all these other things besides.

²⁵ What good does it do a man to gain the whole world and lose or forfeit himself?