AMBITION

Passages on this topic · 134

• Genesis 3:5

  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.”

• Genesis 3:6

  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; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

• Genesis 11:4

  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.”

• Numbers 12:2

  They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

• Numbers 12:3

  Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

• Numbers 12:4

  Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out.

• Numbers 12:5

  Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

• Numbers 12:6

  He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

• Numbers 12:7

  My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

• Numbers 12:8

  With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

• Numbers 12:9

  Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed.

• Numbers 12:10

  The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• Numbers 16:4

  When Moses heard it, he fell on his face.

• Numbers 16:5

  He said to Korah and to all his company, “In the morning, Yahweh will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him. Even him whom he shall choose, he will cause to come near to him.

• Numbers 16:6

  Do this: take censers, Korah, and all his company;

• Numbers 16:7

  and put fire in them, and put incense on them before Yahweh tomorrow. It shall be that the man whom Yahweh chooses, he shall be holy. You have gone too far, you sons of Levi!”

• Numbers 16:8

  Moses said to Korah, “Hear now, you sons of Levi!

• Numbers 16:9

  Is it a small thing to you, that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself, to do the service of Yahweh’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

• Numbers 16:10

  and that he has brought you near, and all your brothers the sons of Levi with you? Do you seek the priesthood also?

• Numbers 16:11

  Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you murmur against him?”

• Numbers 16:12

  Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!

• Numbers 16:13

  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?

• Numbers 16:14

  Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

• Numbers 16:15

  Moses was very angry, and said to Yahweh, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them, neither have I hurt one of them.”

• Numbers 16:16

  Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company go before Yahweh, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow.

• Numbers 16:17

  Each man take his censer, and put incense on them, and each man bring before Yahweh his censer, two hundred fifty censers; you also, and Aaron, each his censer.”

• Numbers 16:18

  They each took his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense on it, and stood at the door of the Tent of Meeting with Moses and Aaron.

• Numbers 16:19

  Korah assembled all the congregation opposite them to the door of the Tent of Meeting. Yahweh’s glory appeared to all the congregation.

• Numbers 16:20

  Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

• Numbers 16:21

  “Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment!”

• Numbers 16:22

  They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”

• Numbers 16:23

  Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

• Numbers 16:24

  “Speak to the congregation, saying, ‘Get away from around the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram!’”

• Numbers 16:25

  Moses rose up and went to Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him.

• Numbers 16:26

  He spoke to the congregation, saying, “Depart, please, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest you be consumed in all their sins!”

• Numbers 16:27

  So they went away from the tent of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side. Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood at the door of their tents, with their wives, their sons, and their little ones.

• Numbers 16:28

  Moses said, “Hereby you shall know that Yahweh has sent me to do all these works; for they are not from my own mind.

• Numbers 16:29

  If these men die the common death of all men, or if they experience what all men experience, then Yahweh hasn’t sent me.

• Numbers 16:30

  But if Yahweh makes a new thing, and the ground opens its mouth, and swallows them up, with all that belong to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.”

• Numbers 16:31

  As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.

• Numbers 16:32

  The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.

• Numbers 16:33

  So they, and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol. The earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.

• Numbers 16:34

  All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!”

• Numbers 16:35

  Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.

• Judges 9:1

  Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother’s father, saying,

• Judges 9:2

  “Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, ‘Is it better for you that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

• Judges 9:3

  His mother’s brothers spoke of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words. Their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, “He is our brother.”

• Judges 9:4

  They gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal Berith, with which Abimelech hired vain and light fellows, who followed him.

• Judges 9:5

  He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one stone: but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

• Judges 9:6

  All the men of Shechem assembled themselves together, and all the house of Millo, and went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem.

• 2 Samuel 15:1

  After this, Absalom prepared a chariot and horses for himself, and fifty men to run before him.

• 2 Samuel 15:2

  Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate. When any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called to him, and said, “What city are you from?” He said, “Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 15:3

  Absalom said to him, “Behold, your matters are good and right; but there is no man deputized by the king to hear you.”

• 2 Samuel 15:4

  Absalom said moreover, “Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who has any suit or cause might come to me, and I would do him justice!”

• 2 Samuel 15:5

  It was so, that when any man came near to do him obeisance, he stretched out his hand, and took hold of him, and kissed him.

• 2 Samuel 15:6

  Absalom did this sort of thing to all Israel who came to the king for judgment. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

• 2 Samuel 15:7

  At the end of forty years, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow, which I have vowed to Yahweh, in Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:8

  For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”

• 2 Samuel 15:9

  The king said to him, “Go in peace.” So he arose, and went to Hebron.

• 2 Samuel 15:10

  But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’”

• 2 Samuel 15:11

  Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

• 2 Samuel 15:12

  Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

• 2 Samuel 15:13

  A messenger came to David, saying, “The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.”

• 2 Samuel 17:23

  When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.

• 2 Samuel 18:18

  Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar which is in the king’s valley, for he said, “I have no son to keep my name in memory.” He called the pillar after his own name. It is called Absalom’s monument, to this day.

• 1 Kings 1:5

  Then Adonijah the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, “I will be king.” Then he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him.

• 2 Kings 14:9

  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 trampled down the thistle.

• 2 Kings 19:23

  By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

• Esther 5:9

  Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

• Esther 5:10

  Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife.

• Esther 5:11

  Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

• Esther 5:12

  Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

• Esther 5:13

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• Esther 6:6

  So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

• Esther 6:7

  Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,

• Esther 6:8

  let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.

• Esther 6:9

  Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

• Job 20:6

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

• Job 20:7

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

• Psalms 49:11

  Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.

• Psalms 49:12

  But man, despite his riches, doesn’t endure. He is like the animals that perish.

• Psalms 49:13

  This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

• Isaiah 5:8

  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!

• Isaiah 14:12

  How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

• Isaiah 14:13

  You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

• Isaiah 14:14

  I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

• Isaiah 14:15

  Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

• Habakkuk 2:5

  Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous. A haughty 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

  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

  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

  Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

• Matthew 4:9

  He said to him, “I will give you all of these things, if you will fall down and worship me.”

• Matthew 4:10

  Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

• Matthew 16:26

  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

  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

  But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

• Matthew 23:6

  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

• Matthew 23:7

  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

• Matthew 23:12

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

• Mark 9:33

  He came to Capernaum, and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing among yourselves on the way?”

• Mark 9:34

  But they were silent, for they had disputed one with another on the way about who was the greatest.

• Mark 9:35

  He sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, “If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.”

• Mark 9:36

  He took a little child, and set him in the middle of them. Taking him in his arms, he said to them,

• Mark 9:37

  “Whoever receives one such little child in my name, receives me, and whoever receives me, doesn’t receive me, but him who sent me.”

• Mark 10:35

  James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”

• Mark 10:36

  He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

• Mark 10:37

  They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”

• Mark 10:38

  But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”

• Mark 10:39

  They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;

• Mark 10:40

  but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”

• Mark 10:41

  When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

• Mark 10:42

  Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

• Mark 10:43

  But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.

• Mark 10:44

  Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.

• Mark 10:45

  For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

• Mark 12:38

  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

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

• Luke 4:5

  The devil, leading him up on a high mountain, showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

• Luke 4:6

  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 whomever I want.

• Luke 4:7

  If you therefore will worship before me, it will all be yours.”

• Luke 4:8

  Jesus answered him, “Get behind me Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’”

• Luke 9:25

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

• Luke 9:46

  There arose an argument among them about which of them was the greatest.

• Luke 11:43

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

• Luke 22:24

  There arose also a contention among them, which of them was considered to be greatest.

• Luke 22:26

  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.

• John 5:44

  How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?

• 1 Timothy 3:1

  This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

• James 4:1

  Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

• James 4:2

  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.

• 1 John 2:16

  For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.

• 3 John 1:9

  I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.

• 3 John 1:10

  Therefore if I come, I will call attention to his deeds which he does, unjustly accusing us with wicked words. Not content with this, neither does he himself receive the brothers, and those who would, he forbids and throws out of the assembly.