1 Corinthians 3:15
If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
14If any one's work--the building which he has erected--stands the test, he will be rewarded.
16Do you not know that you are God's Sanctuary, and that the Spirit of God has His home within you?
Cross References
Acts 27:21When for a long time they had taken but little food, Paul, standing up among them, said, "Sirs, you ought to have listened to me and not have sailed from Crete. You would then have escaped this suffering and loss.
1 Corinthians 3:12And whether the building which any one is erecting on that foundation be of gold or silver or costly stones, of timber or hay or straw--
2 John 1:8Keep guard over yourselves, so that you may not lose the results of your good deeds, but may receive back a full reward.
Revelation 3:18Therefore I counsel you to buy of Me gold refined in the fire that you may become rich, and white robes to put on, so as to hide your shameful nakedness, and eye-salve to anoint your eyes with, so that you may be able to 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 →