Ambition
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Ambition’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 49–72 of 82 verses grouped under this topic.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Matthew 18:4 NT
Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
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But Jesus summoned them, and said, “You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
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It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
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But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
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Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
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Psalms 131:1 OT
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
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Psalms 131:2 OT
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
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Job 20:5-9 OT
that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment? Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds, yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will…
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Job 24:24 OT
They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.
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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…
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James 4:1 NT
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
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James 4:2 NT
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
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He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
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How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on…
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“Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: ‘Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
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I will even deliver him into the hand of the mighty one of the nations. He will surely deal with him. I have driven him out for his wickedness.
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Obadiah 1:1 OT
The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord Yahweh says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise up against her in battle.
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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.
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Habakkuk 2:8 OT
Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples will plunder you, because of men’s blood, and for the violence done to the land, to the city and to all who dwell in it.
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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!
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Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!
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Genesis 3:5 OT
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
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Genesis 3:6 OT
When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate…
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Genesis 11:4 OT
They said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”