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1 Corinthians 3:13 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" 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. "
1 Corinthians 3:13
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;
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.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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1 Corinthians 3:1
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:2
"I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ➔ ye were ➔ not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able."
1 Corinthians 3:3
"For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"
1 Corinthians 3:4
"For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?"
1 Corinthians 3:5
"Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?"
1 Corinthians 3:6
"I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase."
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