Ambition

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Numbers 16:13 OT

  Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

• 2 Kings 14:9 OT

  Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son as wife. Then a wild animal that was in Lebanon passed by, and…

• Job 20:6 OT

  Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,

• Job 20:7 OT

  yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

• Psalms 49:11-13 OT

  Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish. This is…

• Isaiah 5:8 OT

  Woe to those who join house to house, who lay field to field, until there is no room, and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

• Habakkuk 2:5 OT

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. An arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is like death, and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations, and heaps to himself all peoples.

• Habakkuk 2:6 OT

  Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

• Habakkuk 2:9 OT

  Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

• Matthew 4:8-10 NT

  Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory. He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.” Then Jesus said to him,…

• Matthew 16:26 NT

  For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

• Matthew 20:20 NT

  Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, kneeling and asking a certain thing of him.

• Matthew 23:5-7 NT

  But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, the salutations in the marketplaces, and to…

• Matthew 23:12 NT

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

• Mark 9:33-37 NT

  He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?” But they were silent, for they had disputed with one another on the way about who was the greatest. He sat down, and…

• Mark 10:35-45 NT

  James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.” He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?” They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your…

• Mark 12:38 NT

  In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces,

• Mark 12:39 NT

  and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:

• Luke 4:5-8 NT

  The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. The devil said to him, “I will give you all this authority, and their glory, for it has been delivered to me; and I give it to…

• Luke 9:25 NT

  For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

• Luke 9:46 NT

  An argument arose among them about which of them was the greatest.

• Luke 11:43 NT

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 22:24 NT

  A dispute also arose among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

• Luke 22:26 NT

  But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.