3 Bible Verses about Hard Labor

Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win. Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither. So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.read more.
But I beat and bruise my body and make it my slave, so that after I have called others to the contest I may not be disqualified myself.

You have not yet resisted unto death in your struggle with sin,

in the hope of attaining resurrection from the dead. Not that I have secured it yet, or already reached perfection, but I am pressing on to see if I can capture it, because I have been captured by Jesus Christ. Brothers, I do not consider that I have captured it yet, only, forgetting what is behind me, and straining toward what lies ahead,read more.
I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.