3 Bible Verses about Hard Labor

Know ye not that those running a race, all, indeed, run; but one receives the prize? So run; that ye may obtain. And every one who strives in the games exercises self restraint in all things; they, indeed, therefore, to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I, therefore, so run, as not uncertainly I so fight, as not beating the air.read more.
But I buffet my body, and bring it into bondage; lest, by any means, after having preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Not yet did ye resist unto blood, contending against sin;

if by any means I may attain to the out-resurrection from the dead. Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before.read more.
I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.