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Next, all those Israelites without law or piety, led by Alcimus, whose ambition was to become high priest, (1 Maccabees 7, 5)
Trypho's ambition was to become king of Asia, assume the crown, and overpower King Antiochus. (1 Maccabees 12, 39)
His ambition was fired; he hoped to make himself master of the whole country and therefore treacherously began to plot the destruction of Simon and his sons. (1 Maccabees 16, 13)
Better the end of a matter than its beginning, better patience than ambition. (Ecclesiastes 7, 8)
How can the ploughman become wise, whose sole ambition is to wield the goad, driving his oxen, engrossed in their work, his conversation limited to bullocks, (Ecclesiasticus 38, 25)
And so whether at home or exiled, we make it our ambition to please him. (2 Corinthians 5, 9)
But if at heart you have the bitterness of jealousy, or selfish ambition, do not be boastful or hide the truth with lies; (James 3, 14)
Wherever there are jealousy and ambition, there are also disharmony and wickedness of every kind; (James 3, 16)
You want something and you lack it; so you kill. You have an ambition that you cannot satisfy; so you fight to get your way by force. It is because you do not pray that you do not receive; (James 4, 2)
