1 Corinthians 3:15
If any man's work will be burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14If any man's work that he built on will remain, he will receive benefit.
16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Cross References
Amos 4:11I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.
Acts 27:21And being long without food, then Paul, who stood in the midst of them, said, Ye truly ought, O men, to have complied with me, not to launch from Crete, and gain this damage and loss.
1 Corinthians 3:12And if any man builds upon this foundation, gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
2 John 1:8Watch yourselves, so that we may not lose what we have wrought, but may receive a full reward.
Revelation 3:18I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoin
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 3:12-16
The Spiritual Foundation. ( a. d. 57.) 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall… Read the whole commentary →