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Top 5 Bible Verses-Ambition

Ambition!

Top 5 Bible verses-ambition

What is your greatest ambition?

What do you want to accomplish?

What do you want to gain?

And what would you sacrifice for your ambition?

The Bible talks about ambition….

In fact it has quite a lot to say on the subject of ambition…

Is ambition good?

A part of the human character to be embraced and celebrated?

Or is ambition a worldly vice to be abandoned in our walk with God?

Read the 5 Bible verses below…

Top 5 Bible verses-ambition ….

Luke 9:25

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world.

1 Timothy 6:9

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Mark 9:33-37

And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.” And he took a child and put him in the midst of them, and taking him in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Do you have a favorite Bible verse on ambition?

Have we left it out of this list?

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