1 Corinthians 3:15
but if anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, as though escaping through fire.
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In Context
14If anyone's work remains, he will receive a reward;
16Do you not know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you?
Cross References
Amos 4:11I overthrew cities among you, 1 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 1 You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Acts 27:21When they had gone long without food, then Paul stood up among the sailors and said, “Men, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, so as to get this injury and loss.
1 Corinthians 3:12Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
2 John 1:8Look to yourselves, that you do not lose the things for which we all have worked, but so that you may receive a full reward.
Revelation 3:18Listen to my advice: Buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, and brilliant white garments so you may clothe yourself and not show the shame of your nakedness, and salve to anoint your eyes so you will 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 →