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Ambition

 

Ambition

God condemns - Ge 11:7; Isa 5:8

Christ condemns - Mt 18:1,3,4; 20:25,26; 23:11,12

Saints avoid - Ps 131:1,2

Vanity of - Job 20:5-9; 24:24; Ps 49:11-20

Leads to strife and contention - Jas 4:1,2

Punishment of - Pr 17:19; Isa 14:12-15; Eze 31:10,11; Ob 1:3,4

CONNECTED WITH

• Pride
- Hab 2:5
• Covetousness
- Hab 2:8,9
• Cruelty
- Hab 2:12

EXEMPLIFIED

• Adam and Eve
- Ge 3:5,6
• Builders of Babel
- Ge 11:4
• Miriam and Aaron
- Nu 12:2
• Korah, &c
- Nu 16:3
• Absalom
- 2Sa 15:4; 18:18
• Adonijah
- 1Ki 1:5
• Sennacherib
- 2Ki 19:23
• Shebna
- Isa 22:16
• Sons of Zebedee
- Mt 20:21
• Antichrist
- 2Th 2:4
• Diotrephes
- 3Jo 1:9
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