1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.
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In Context
14If anyone’s work, which they have built on that foundation, still remains, they will gain a reward.
16Don’t you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?
Cross References
Amos 4:11I wrought a destruction among you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a stick snatched from the fire, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
Acts 27:21It was then, when they had gone a long time without food, that Paul came forward, and said, “My friends, you should have listened to me, and not have sailed from Crete and so incurred this injury and damage.
1 Corinthians 3:12Whatever is used by those who build on this foundation, whether gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,
2 John 1:8Take care so that you do not lose what we have worked for but instead receive your full reward.
Revelation 3:18Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been refined by fire so that you may grow rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness be hidden; and ointment to anoint your eyes, 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 →