What does 1 Corinthians 3:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire."
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:15. _IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER_ _LOSS_] If he have preached the necessity of incorporating the _law_ with the _Gospel_, or proclaimed as a doctrine of Go...
IF ANY MAN’S WORK SHALL BE BURNED - If it shall not be found to hear the test of the investigation of that Day - as a cottage of wood, hay, and stubble would not bear the application of fire. If his d...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Carnal state of the Corinthians. (1 Corinthians 3:1)._ 2. The Workmen and their Work. (1 Corinthians 3:10). 3. The Church the Temple of God. (1 Corinthians 3:16). 4. Warning aga...
RENEWED CONDEMNATION OF PARTY SPIRIT. Paul has now reached a point where he can effect an easy return to the divisions at Corinth. He has been speaking of the spiritual man who is capable of receiving...
THE SUPREME IMPORTANCE OF GOD (1 Corinthians 3:1-9)...
BURNED. burned up. Greek. _katakaio._ Compare Matthew 3:12; Luke 3:17; 2 Peter 3:10. SUFFER LOSS. Greek. _zemioo._ Elsewhere, Matthew 16:26; Mark 8:36; Luke 9:25; 2 Corinthians 7:9; Philippians 1:3; P...
Christian Ministers only labourers of more or less efficiency, the substantial work being God's 6. _I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase_ The Apostle would lead his converts to r...
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS ONLY LABOURERS OF MORE OR LESS EFFICIENCY, THE SUBSTANTIAL WORK BEING GOD’S...
_THE FOUNDATION IS CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 3:11-15:_ Christ is the foundation, and we are to be careful that we build in a scriptural and spiritual way on Him. He is the only foundation upon which you ca...
ΚΑΤΑΚΑΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΤΑΚΑΊΩ (G2618) полностью сгорать. Предложное сочетание перфектно (МН, 316). ΖΗΜΙΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΖΗΜΙΌΩ (G2210) _pass._ страдать от потери; здесь: он...
DISCOURSE: 1946 INSTRUCTIONS TO THOSE WHO BUILD UPON THE TRUE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:12. _Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man’s...
NOW IF ANY MAN BUILD, &C.— "Though no man who pretends to be a preacher of the Gospel can build upon any other foundation than that of Jesus Christ, yet you ought not to cry up your new instructor, wh...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Consists In Spiritual Work For God (1 Corinthians 3:5-17) 5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6I plan...
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. IF ... BE BURNT - If any man's work consist of such materials as the fire will destroy....
5 Apollos was a Jew of Alexandria, a scholarly man, and able in the Scriptures. He came to Ephesus, full of zeal, but versed only in the baptism of John. Priscilla and Aquila heard him speak boldly in...
3:15 fire. (b-24) The addition of the article gives the right sense. 'saved by fire' may mean that the fire was a means of safety, whereas 'through the fire' is in spite of it, or going through the da...
THE FAULT OF PARTY SPIRIT The immaturity of the Corinthian converts and their unfitness for anything but elementary instruction in the faith is proved by their mutual jealousies and their disagreemen...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 3 GOD’S WORKERS 3:1-9 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I could not speak to you as if the *Holy Spirit was guiding you. I had to speak to you as...
SO AS. — These words remind us that the whole passage, and especially the reference to fire, is to be regarded as metaphorical, and not to be understood in a literal and physical sense. Forgetting thi...
CHAPTER 6 GOD'S HUSBANDRY AND BUILDING PAUL having abundantly justified his method of preaching to the Corinthians, and having shown why he contented himself with the simple presentation of the Cross...
§ 10. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE HUMAN BUILDERS. After the long digression on Wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:17 to 1 Corinthians 3:2), occasioned by the Hellenic misconception of the Gospel underlying the Cor...
BUILD ON THE SURE FOUNDATION 1 Corinthians 3:10 We are called upon to contribute our share to the building of saved souls which is rising through the ages, to be an habitation of God through the Spi...
The reason for the schisms was that these people were carnal. "Jealousy and strife" are evidences of carnality. Proceeding, Paul declared the true value of the Christian ministry. "For we are God's fe...
Testing the Building Materials McGarvey suggests the building materials Paul mentioned were very familiar to the brethren at Corinth. The first three building materials, gold, silver and precious sto...
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but (8) he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. (8) He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and foolish builders,...
Now if any man build, &c. This is a hard place, says St. Augustine, lib. de fid. & Oper. chap. xvi. tom. 6. p. 180. The interpreters are divided, as to the explication and application of this metaphor...
In order to show what, in a religious organization like that which the gospel creates, is the place of preachers, the apostle takes two examples: Apollos and himself; and he develops what he means to...
(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? (4) For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; a...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
15._If any man’s work shall be burned. _It is as though he had said: Let no man flatter himself on the ground that, in the opinion of men, he is reckoned among the most eminent _master-builders_, for...
They were not natural men; but they were carnal (not spiritual) men, so that the apostle had to feed them with milk and not with meat which was only fit for those that were of full age. That with whic...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNT,.... If any minister's doctrine he has preached shall be destroyed and disappear, shall be disapproved of, and rejected by the churches, not being able, to bear the li...
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Ver. 15. _He shall suffer loss_] Of his work (his laborious loss of time) and of some part o...
_If any maws work abide which he hath built_, &c. If the superstructure which any minister of Christ raises on the true foundation, if the doctrines which he preaches can bear the test by which they s...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED; if it be condemned as wrong, though he himself believed and is pardoned, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS; he shall lose his labor, and much of the good which might have resulte...
The building itself:...
But in practical experience the Corinthians were not properly regarding, nor depending on, the wisdom of the Spirit of God, who had been given to them. Paul could not write to them as spiritual, but a...
IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED, HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS: BUT HE HIMSELF SHALL BE SAVED; YET SO AS THROUGH FIRE. 'he shall suffer loss' -2210. zemioo dzay-mee-o'-o; from 2209; to injure, i.e. (reflex...
10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ours...
But if his work do not abide, if it shall appear upon the more clear and bright shining out of the truth of the gospel, that though he hath held the foundation right, yet he hath built upon it wood, h...
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss [if a teacher's disciples endure the test of judgment, he shall receive a reward, of which his converts will be at least a part (1 Thessalonians...
1 Corinthians 3:15 anyones G1536 work G2041 burned G2618 (G5691) loss G2210 (G5701) but G1161 himself G846 saved G4982 (G5701) yet G1161 so G3779 as G5613 through G1223 fire G4442 work - 1 Corinthian...
THAT IS WHY THESE TEACHERS ARE UNITED IN THEIR WORK KNOWING THEY MUST ACCOUNT TO GOD FOR THEIR MINISTRY (3:8-15). Paul now puts all these teachers, including himself, firmly in their place. They are...
1 Corinthians 3:15. IF ANY MAN'S WORK SHALL BE BURNED as consisting of the inflammable “wood, hay, stubble,” HE SHALL SUFFER LOSS loss of his time, his pains, his hopes, his credit; his whole minist...
SHALL BE BURNED (κατακαησετα). First-class condition again, assumed as true. Second future (late form) passive indicative of κατακαιω, to burn down, old verb. Note perfective use of preposition κατ...
SAVED (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
1 Corinthians 3:12 This is an awful passage; one whose import no man to whom has been committed the care of souls can realise without trembling. But it has a lesson for all laity as well as clergy on...
1. _And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ._ The church at Corinth consisted of persons of large education and great abilities....
CONTENTS: Hindrance of a carnal state to spiritual growth. Christian service and its reward. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul, Apollos, Cephas. CONCLUSION: Our salvation rests solely upon...
1 Corinthians 3:1. _Babes in Christ,_ like children at the breast, requiring to be _fed with milk, and not with meat._ Our great tutor here addresses the Corinthians in a superior style of eloquence,...
IS BURNT UP. If the disciples he has taught are unfaithful when persecuted, he will lose his reward (see 1 Corinthians 3:14). BUT HE HIMSELF WILL BE SAVED. This seems to imply the false teacher was si...
_According to the grace of God … as a wise master builder, I have laid the foundation … But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon._ ALL OF GRACE Now when we say a godly man acknowledgeth...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3:14 REWARD.... LOSS... SAVED... AS THROUGH FIRE. See also v. 1 Corinthians 3:8 and 1 Corinthians 4:4. Believers in Jesus have already been justified by faith (Roma...
CHAPTER III. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER He endeavours to put an end to the divisions among the Corinthians, by reminding them of their mutual subjection and union in Christ and God. I. He points out t...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 3:10.—WAS GIVEN … I LAID, _q.d_. “when I was at Corinth.” “_A_ foundation,” “which I subjectively laid in my teaching at Corinth, because God had already laid the same...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 _The carnal conceit of the spiritually immature._ 1 CORINTHIANS 3:1 I… COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO YOU AS UNTO SPIRITUAL. Though softened by the word brethren, there was a cr...
Let's turn now to I Corinthians, chapter 3. Beginning with the fourteenth verse of chapter 2, Paul here separates men into three classifications. Starting in chapter 2 with the natural man, the unrege...
1 Corinthians 3:12; 1 Corinthians 3:13; 1 Peter 4:18; 2 John 1:8; Acts 27:21; Acts 27:44; Amos 4:11; Jude 1:23; Revelation 3:18; Zechariah 3:2
Shall suffer loss [ζ η μ ι ω θ η σ ε τ α ι]. He shall be mulcted, not punished. See on Matthew 16:26; Luke 9:25. He himself shall be saved. Compare Dante of Constantine : "The next who follows, with...
THE CARNAL AND SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN 1 Corinthians 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In our last study, we were discussing two kinds of people. One, the unregenerate who had not the Spirit, and the other, the r...
He shall suffer loss — The loss of that peculiar degree of glory....
Does this passage support the Roman Catholic view of purgatory? PROBLEM: Roman Catholics appeal to this passage in support of the doctrine of temporary punishment for those not good enough to go dire...