Bible Verse Lookup
1 Cor 3:15
Chapter 3
15
but if your work burns up, you will suffer loss. You will be saved, but it will be as if passing through fire.
but if your work burns up, you will suffer loss. You will be saved, but it will be as if passing through fire.
Commentaries
The Immaturity of the Corinthians.
After establishing the essential Christian principles that every community of believers should be built upon, Paul addresses the specific issues faced by his beloved Corinthians, starting with the main one: the envy and discord that had divided the community into factions (4). He then works to dismantle these factions rooted in personality cults: “Who is Apollos? Who is Paul?” (5). Ministers and servants of faith are not the owners of the community. They plant, water, build, and encourage growth; that is, “we are God’s fellow workers” (9), but only God causes the growth, and “no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ” (11), cf. Ephesians 2:20-22. Paul’s insightful perspective offers us a powerful conclusion: “All things are yours, you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s” (22f).