1 Corinthians 3:15
If any one's work shall be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved; yet so as through fire.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
14If any one's work which he built thereon remains, he will receive reward.
16Know ye not that ye are God's temple, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Cross References
Acts 27:21But after much abstinence, then Paul, standing up in the midst of then, said: Sirs, ye should have hearkened to me and not put to sea from Crete, and so have escaped this violence and loss.
1 Corinthians 3:12And if any one builds on this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
2 John 1:8Look to yourselves, that ye lose not the things which we wrought, but receive a full reward.
Revelation 3:18I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments, that thou mayest be clothed, and the shame of thy nakedness not be made manifest, and to anoint thine eyes with eye-salve, that thou mayest 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 →