Ambition
51 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
31 sections
- Aaron and Miriam
- Abimelech
- Absalom
- Adam and Eve
- Adonijah
- Ahithophel
- Antichrist
- Builders of Babel
- Christ Condemns
- Connected With: Covetousness
- Connected With: Cruelty
- Connected With: Pride
- Diotrephes
- Eve
- Falsely Charged Against Moses
- God Condemns
- Haman
- Korah
- Korah and his Co-Conspirators
- Leads to Strife and Contention
- Lucifer
- Miriam and Aaron
- Parable of the Thistle, Illustrating
- Punishment of
- Saints Avoid
- Sennacherib
- Shebna
- Sons of Zebedee
- The Builders of Babel
- Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Vanity of
Aaron and Miriam
- Numbers 12:2–10 “Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this. …
Abimelech
- Judges 9:1–6 Now Abimelech son of Jerubbaal went to his mother’s brothers at Shechem and said to them and to all the clan of his mother, …
Absalom
- 2 Samuel 15:1–13 Some time later, Absalom provided for himself a chariot with horses and fifty men to run ahead of him. …
- 2 Samuel 18:18 During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
Adam and Eve
- Genesis 3:5–6 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” …
Adonijah
- 1 Kings 1:5 At that time Adonijah, David’s son by Haggith, began to exalt himself, saying, “I will be king!” And he acquired chariots and horsemen and fifty men to run ahead of him.
Ahithophel
- 2 Samuel 17:23 When Ahithophel saw that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his affairs in order and hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.
Antichrist
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4 He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
Builders of Babel
- Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Christ Condemns
- Matthew 18:1 At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who then is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”
- Matthew 18:3–4 “Truly I tell you,” He said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. …
- Matthew 20:25–26 But Jesus called them aside and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their superiors exercise authority over them. …
- Matthew 23:11–12 The greatest among you shall be your servant. …
Connected With: Covetousness
- Habakkuk 2:8–9 Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers. …
Connected With: Cruelty
- Habakkuk 2:12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
Connected With: Pride
- Habakkuk 2:5 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.
Diotrephes
- 3 John 9–10 I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction. …
Eve
- Genesis 3:5–6 “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” …
Falsely Charged Against Moses
- Numbers 16:13 Is it not enough that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness? Must you also appoint yourself as ruler over us?
God Condemns
- Genesis 11:7 Come, let Us go down and confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”
- 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.
Haman
- Esther 5:9–13 That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. …
- Esther 6:6–9 Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?” …
Korah
- Numbers 16:3 They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the …
Korah and his Co-Conspirators
- Numbers 16:3–35 They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the …
Leads to Strife and Contention
- James 4:1–2 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? …
Lucifer
- Isaiah 14:12–15 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. …
Miriam and Aaron
- Numbers 12:2 “Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
Parable of the Thistle, Illustrating
- 2 Kings 14:9 But Jehoash king of Israel replied to Amaziah king of Judah: “A thistle in Lebanon sent a message to a cedar in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ Then a wild beast in Lebanon came along and trampled the thistle.
Punishment of
- Proverbs 17:19 He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his gate high invites destruction.
- Isaiah 14:12–15 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. …
- Ezekiel 31:10–11 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height, …
- Obadiah 3–4 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’ …
Saints Avoid
- Psalm 131:1–2 My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me. …
Sennacherib
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
Shebna
- Isaiah 22:16 What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here — to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
Sons of Zebedee
- Matthew 20:21 “What do you want?” He inquired. She answered, “Declare that in Your kingdom one of these two sons of mine may sit at Your right hand, and the other at Your left.”
The Builders of Babel
- Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Unclassified Scriptures Relating To
- Job 20:6–7 Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, …
- Psalm 49:11–13 Their graves are their eternal homes — their dwellings for endless generations — even though their lands were their namesakes. …
- 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.
- Habakkuk 2:5–6 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. …
- Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- 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. …
- 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?
- 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.
- Matthew 23:5–7 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. …
- Matthew 23:12 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
- 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?” …
- 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.” …
- 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, …
- 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. …
- Luke 9:25 What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose or forfeit his very self?
- Luke 9:46 Then an argument started among the disciples as to which of them would be the greatest.
- Luke 11:43 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
- Luke 22:24 A dispute also arose among the disciples as to which of them should be considered the greatest.
- Luke 22:26 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.
- 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?
- 1 Timothy 3:1 This is a trustworthy saying: If anyone aspires to be an overseer, he desires a noble task.
- James 4:1–2 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? …
- 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.
Vanity of
- Job 20:5–9 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? …
- Job 24:24 They are exalted for a moment, then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others; they are cut off like heads of grain.
- Psalm 49:11–20 Their graves are their eternal homes — their dwellings for endless generations — even though their lands were their namesakes. …
Related topics
Treason of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram Against Moses and AaronDathanUsurpation of Political Functions by AbsalomConspiracyTreason of Aaron and Miriam Against Moses
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.