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1 Corinthians 3:15 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. "
1 Corinthians 3:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
13 each man’s work will be revealed. For the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is.
14 If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.
16 Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, which you are.
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1 Corinthians 3:1
"Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:2
"I fed you with milk, not with solid food, for you weren’t yet ready. Indeed, you aren’t ready even now,"
1 Corinthians 3:3
"for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?"
1 Corinthians 3:4
"For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you fleshly?"
1 Corinthians 3:5
"Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?"
1 Corinthians 3:6
"I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase."
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