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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Job 20:6, 7

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, / he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Psalm 49:11–13

Their graves are their eternal homes—their dwellings for endless generations—even though their lands were their namesakes. / But a man, despite his wealth, cannot endure; he is like the beasts that perish. / This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Isaiah 5:8

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Habakkuk 2:5, 6, 9

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own. / Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’ / Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 4:8–10

Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. / “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and worship me.” / “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 16:26

What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 20:20

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Matthew 23:5–7, 12

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. / They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, / the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 9:33–37

Then they came to Capernaum. While Jesus was in the house, He asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” / But they were silent, for on the way they had been arguing about which of them was the greatest. / Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all.”

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 10:35–45

Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and declared, “Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask.” / “What do you want Me to do for you?” He inquired. / They answered, “Grant that one of us may sit at Your right hand and the other at Your left in Your glory.”

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Mark 12:38, 39

In His teaching Jesus also said, “Watch out for the scribes. They like to walk around in long robes, to receive greetings in the marketplaces, / and to have the chief seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 4:5–8

Then the devil led Him up to a high place and showed Him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. / “I will give You authority over all these kingdoms and all their glory,” he said. “For it has been relinquished to me, and I can give it to anyone I wish. / So if You worship me, it will all be Yours.”

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 9:25, 46

What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self? / Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 11:43

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To Luke 22:24, 26

A dispute also arose among the disciples as to which of them would be considered the greatest. / But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To John 5:44

How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 Timothy 3:1

This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To James 4:1, 2

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? / You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

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Ambition: Unclassified Scriptures Relating To 1 John 2:16

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

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