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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 Next Topic (Ammonites, The)