1 Co 3:15

[Wrg1405]

1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

What's your thoughts about this verse?

 

[Christ_empowered]

I think the RCC uses it to support the purgatory concept. I consulted The Google quickly, and it seems that our faith in Christ (the foundation) will survive, but works done in the flesh, no matter how helpful and seemingly spiritual, won't survive judgment. Something like that, anyway.

 

[Kidron]

1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

What's your thoughts about this verse?

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This is a judgement seat of Christ = cross reference you have posted.

1st Corinthians 5:10 """"For we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ, so that each may be repaid for what he has done in the body, whether good or worthless. .""""
Cross reference this, when you have time, with 1 Corinthians 3:12.

Your scripture refers to "fire", and "loss"....and this very easily understood, and there is no magic or hocus pocus about it.....however, understand that there is symbolic stuff going on here and some literal, as scriptures are often just .......like........that.

Here is the answer....
""For we....(This is the Believers).... must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ, so that each may be repaid....(rewarded)""
See that?
"repaid"?
Now, to your scripture........"if anyone's WORK is BURNED".... = notice the "Fire"..
All this means is that there is a refining process that will happen to us when we meet Jesus, whereby He is going to actually look back in time at all of our works we've ever done "in the body"....
This is your body, but it also means "In the body of Christ"..
So, the "fire" that is referred to in your verse, is the sifting of our motives that Jesus can SEE, that will be discovered for every single "work" we ever did as a Christian.
Its a MOTIVE CHECK......TO REWARD US.......for our lifetime of works we did as Christians.
He's doing that to us at the JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST.
Jesus will FILTER them all,...all through the symbolic "FIRE", in your verse......and all of your works, will be discovered as gold, silver, precious stones... OR.... discovered to be as "wood hay and stubble........based on your motive for all of them.
So, to explain this more simply....
Like this...
We will all stand before Jesus, and in the (Refining fire) that is His DISCERNMENT ability to look at our entire lifetime of deeds we did "in the body of Christ'...He will actually be able to discern <><> TO LITERALLY SEE<><> our very motive for doing them all, and reward us or not, PER each and every one.
Remember the NT verse that says that....... "Jesus knew their thoughts".
That is what your verse is talking about, regarding Jesus KNOWING the Motives you had for every thing you ever did in your life for Him.
You will be saved in this process, because you are redeemed by the Blood, but your works, your lifetime of works that were "Christian", will be Judged by Jesus regarding their Value, based on your motive for doing each of them.
They are rated.....the best are Gold, the worst are "stubble".
Some are rewarded based on "pure motive" value, and the others will be burned.....and that is the "fire" in your verse you posted.
Cool huh?

And again........
The bible explains this as some works are burned and some are rewarded....... Gold, silver, costly stones, OR wood, hay or stubble., is how the bible symbolically explains the VALUE contrast between the rewarded works VS the ones that are burned = wood, hay, stubble.
If your motive per work was pure, then this is a "gold, silver, costly stone", EVALUATION RATING regarding the level of the purity of your motive per each and every "Christian Work" you ever did in your entire life.
= wow.
Whereas if your motive for doing works is judged by that " Refining FIRE" of Jesus's Discernment as SELF CENTERED, then those works BURN = wood, hay, stubble, (evaluation), = you get no rewards for those.
(So be careful always of your heart condition when you do something for the Lord.)
(It is being RATED)..
And one more time.......with feeling...
= The Lord not only sees (discerns) each work we do based on Motive, but there is an evaluation of the pureness of the MOTIVE of each work, that is RATED .....gold, silver, precious stones...........wood, hay, or stubble..
This is pretty "micro" intense evaluating, and this actually happens to us when we meet the Lord in Heaven.
Its is NOT a JOKE.
This is just as serious as Jesus being nailed to a Cross is serious.
Its nothing to be played with, and its nothing to put as secondary in your life..... as to realize what we are heading for is the best way i can show you that will keep you MUCH MORE HOLY before your GOD, all your life.
And i just did.

This situation is certainly better then meeting God as a Christ Rejector in Revelations 20:11.
As obviously that is one final judgment you will be OH SO GLAD you missed..
Be sure to thank JESUS for that, = everyday.



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[Jethro Bodine]

In context, it's what you build onto the foundation of Jesus Christ in the building/household of God.
Here's what's built on the foundation of Jesus Christ:

"you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, 20 having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone" (Ephesians 2:19-20 NASB italics in original)

After the final purging of the temple of God at the final Judgment of fire, if who you built onto the foundation of Christ in the building of God (see above) survives that Judgment they will be the reward that you exult in on the other side of the Judgment:

"19For who is our hope or joy or crown of exultation? Is it not even you, in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? 20For you are our glory and joy." (1 Thessalonians 2:19-20 NASB)

"...we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus." (2 Corinthians 1:14 NASB)

See, there is lots of bad teaching out there that brings people into this present kingdom of God who never really believed to begin with, or which causes them to not believe to the very end, and as a result will not pass through the coming Judgment of fire, and so they will not be around to be the reward of the servant and builder in the building of God who labored to place them there. The laborer's work will be burned up and the worker will lose any potential reward that these people's presence on the other side would have been for them. The laborer himself will be saved (provided he is not the reason they did not make it through the fire--1 Corinthians 3:17 NASB), but only as one escaping out of a burning house with nothing but his own flesh, all of his work being left behind to burn, having been done in vain.

" prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, 16 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain." (Philippians 2:15-16 NASB)

 

[Born Again 2004]

1 Corinthians 3:15
If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

What's your thoughts about this verse?

You are saved by his works alone and none of you. With out these types of works in you, your faith ( what God recognizes) is death as far as God is concerned. Jesus said" if you are in me and I in you, you will produce much fruit but, with out me you can do nothing. In your 1 Cor verse, in the end, this is revealed and you will be finished as going through fire, where anything you bring of yourselves counts for nothing and is lost as if burned away. The only thing that remains is the work of the Holy Spirit in you; one of which, is Christ in you!