You are God’s building. ¹⁰As a skilled and experienced builder, I used the gift^athat God gave me to lay the foundation ⸤for that building⸥. However, someone else is building on it. Each person must be careful how he builds on it. ¹¹After all, no one can lay any other foundation than the one that is already laid, and that foundation is Jesus Christ. ¹²People may build on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw. ¹³The day will make what each one does clearly visible because fire will reveal it. That fire will determine what kind of work each person has done. ¹⁴If what a person has built survives, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵If his work is burned up, he will suffer ⸤the loss⸥. However, he will be saved, though it will be like going through a fire.

¹⁶Don’t you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you? ¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him because God’s temple is holy. You are that holy temple!

Read in Logos

1 Corinthians 3:9: For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.

Footnotes

a 3:10 Or “grace.”