1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer its loss, but he himself will still be saved, but only as through fire.
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In The King James Version
In Context
14If anyone’s work, which he has built upon it, remains, then he will receive a reward.
16Do you not know that you are the Temple of God, and that the Spirit of God lives within you?
Cross References
Amos 4:11I overturned you, just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like an ember seized from the fire. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.
Acts 27:21And after they had fasted for a long time, Paul, standing in their midst, said: “Certainly, men, you should have listened to me and not set out from Crete, so as to cause this injury and loss.
1 Corinthians 3:12But if anyone builds upon this foundation, whether gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or stubble,
2 John 1:8Be cautious for yourselves, lest you lose what you have accomplished, and so that, instead, you may receive a full reward.
Revelation 3:18I urge you to buy from me gold, tested by fire, so that you may be enriched and may be clothed in white vestments, and so that the shame of your nakedness may disappear. And anoint your eyes with an eye salve, so that you may see.
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 →