Ambition: Diotrephes

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3 John 1:9,10
I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.
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The God of Peace
... The next enemy to peace is ambition. "Diotrephes loveth to have the
pre-eminence," and that fellow has spoiled many a happy church. ...
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Pride and Humility
... to tumble down because it is always looking upward in its ambition, and never ... exalt
thyself above all thy fellow-creatures, and be a very Diotrephes in the ...
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Pride and Humility
... to tumble down, because it is always looking upward in its ambition, and never ... exalt
thyself above all thy fellow-creatures, and be a very Diotrephes in the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/pride and humility.htm

On Reconciling Religious Dissensions among Christians
... John accuses Diotrephes, when he complains that "neither doth he himself receive
the brethren ... such a desire of power as partook at once of ambition and avarice ...
/.../the works of james arminius vol 1/oration v on reconciling religious.htm

The Catholic Epistles.
... contempt of the poor, defrauding the poor of their wages, ambition to assume ... commended
them to the church where Gaius resided; but that Diotrephes had hindered ...
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Subtopics

Ambition

Ambition: Aaron and Miriam

Ambition: Abimelech

Ambition: Absalom

Ambition: Adam and Eve

Ambition: Adonijah

Ambition: Ahithophel

Ambition: Antichrist

Ambition: Builders of Babel

Ambition: Christ Condemns

Ambition: Connected With: Covetousness