Bible Verses About Humanity's Ambition

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart.

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,

But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

Put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth.

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.

Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.

The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.