Ambition

for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction,

each not to your own look ye, but each also to the things of others.

because all that <FI>is<Fi> in the world--the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life--is not of the Father, but of the world,

how are ye able--ye--to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that <FI>is<Fi> from God alone ye seek not?

Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves--

and so counting it honour to proclaim good news, not where Christ was named--that upon another's foundation I might not build--

ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

for what is a man profited if he may gain the whole world, but of his life suffer loss? or what shall a man give as an exchange for his life?

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

Again doth the Devil take him to a very high mount, and doth shew to him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them, — read the full passage →

`And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments, — read the full passage →

and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness--indignation and wrath,

let no one seek his own--but each another's.

And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves-- — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

let us not become vain-glorious--one another provoking, one another envying!

See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

for yet ye are fleshly, for where <FI>there is<Fi> among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John,

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; — read the full passage →

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

but ye <FI>are<Fi> not so, but he who is greater among you--let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

And thou--thou seekest for thee great things--do not seek, for lo, I am bringing in evil on all flesh--an affirmation of Jehovah--and I have given to thee thy life for a spoil, in all places whither thou goest.'

Stedfast <FI>is<Fi> the word: If any one the oversight doth long for, a right work he desireth;

for where zeal and rivalry <FI>are<Fi> , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law <FI>is<Fi> within my heart.

because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

Call unto Me, and I do answer thee, yea, I declare to thee great and fenced things--thou hast not known them.

How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations. — read the full passage →

with milk I fed you, and not with meat, for ye were not yet able, but not even yet are ye now able,

Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!

thou, O king, God Most High, a kingdom, and greatness, and glory, and honour, gave to Nebuchadnezzar thy father: — read the full passage →

Woe <FI>to<Fi> those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!

And Absalom hath taken, and setteth up for himself in his life, the standing-pillar that <FI>is<Fi> in the king's valley, for he said, `I have no son to cause my name to be remembered;' and he calleth the standing-pillar by his own name, and it is called `The monument of Absalom' unto this day.

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, — read the full passage →

and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:

The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, — read the full passage →

And he came to Capernaum, and being in the house, he was questioning them, `What were ye reasoning in the way among yourselves?' — read the full passage →

To do justice <FI>is<Fi> joy to the righteous, But ruin to workers of iniquity.

And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, `I do reign;' and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,

and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part <FI>is<Fi> in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'

And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

of one another the burdens bear ye, and so fill up the law of the Christ,

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

`All things, therefore, whatever ye may will that men may be doing to you, so also do to them, for this is the law and the prophets.

And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it; — read the full passage →

Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made,

and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;

and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during. — read the full passage →

And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north. — read the full passage →

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free--stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude; — read the full passage →

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant, — read the full passage →

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

And also, because the wine <FI>is<Fi> treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples,

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Jehovah, my heart hath not been haughty, Nor have mine eyes been high, Nor have I walked in great things, And in things too wonderful for me. — read the full passage →

I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them--Diotrephes--doth not receive us;

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, — read the full passage →

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

who is opposing and is raising himself up above all called God or worshipped, so that he in the sanctuary of God as God hath sat down, shewing himself off that he is God--<FI> the day doth not come<Fi> .

brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing--the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth-- — read the full passage →

As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you <FI>is<Fi> sure; — read the full passage →

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants; — read the full passage →

lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God, for it hath been written, `Who is taking the wise in their craftiness;'

which He announced before through His prophets in holy writings--

And the Devil having brought him up to an high mountain, shewed to him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time, — read the full passage →

And there come near to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying, `Teacher, we wish that whatever we may ask for ourselves, thou mayest do for us;' — read the full passage →

Do not these--all of them--against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe <FI>to<Fi> him who is multiplying <FI>what is<Fi> not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because that thou hast been high in stature, And he yieldeth his foliage between thickets, And high is his heart in his haughtiness, — read the full passage →

And these <FI>are<Fi> words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the remnant of the elders of the removal, and unto the priests, and unto the prophets, and unto all the people--whom Nebuchadnezzar removed from Jerusalem to Babylon, — read the full passage →

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied <FI>with<Fi> silver, nor he who is in love with stores <FI>with<Fi> increase. Even this <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

Of man <FI>are<Fi> arrangements of the heart, And from Jehovah an answer of the tongue. — read the full passage →

Their heart <FI>is<Fi> : Their houses <FI>are<Fi> to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. — read the full passage →

And Haman goeth forth on that day rejoicing and glad in heart, and at Haman's seeing Mordecai in the gate of the king, and he hath not risen nor moved for him, then is Haman full of fury against Mordecai. — read the full passage →

and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, — read the full passage →

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

In those days the multitude being very great, and not having what they may eat, Jesus having called near his disciples, saith to them, — read the full passage →

And Job answereth and saith: -- — read the full passage →

That the singing of the wicked <FI>is<Fi> short, And the joy of the profane for a moment, — read the full passage →

By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains--The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.