3 Bible Verses about Hard Labor

Know you not that those who run in the race all indeed run, but one takes the prize. So run that you may obtain. And every one that contends in the games is temperate in all things, they indeed to obtain a perishable crown, we an imperishable. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, and so strike, not as one who beats the air;read more.
but I brow-beat my body, and bring it into subjection, lest having preached to others I should myself be a reprobate.

You have not yet resisted to blood contending against sin.

that I may attain the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained it, or have been already made perfect; but I follow on that I may attain that for which also I was arrested by Christ. I consider not myself, brothers, to have attained it; but this one thing I do; forgetting the things behind, and reaching forward to those before,read more.
I press forward to the mark for the prize of the high call of God in Christ Jesus.