¹⁰According to the grace of God given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each builder choose with care how to build on it.^* ¹¹For no one can lay any foundation other than the one that has been laid; that foundation is Jesus Christ.^* ¹²Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—¹³the work of each builder will become visible, for the day^m will disclose it, because it will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each has done.^* ¹⁴If the work that someone has built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a wage. ¹⁵If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire.

¹⁶Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?ⁿ^* ¹⁷If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy that person. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

Read in Logos

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

Footnotes

mOr the Day
nIn 3:16 and 3:17 the Greek word for you is plural

Cross references

*Isa 61:3; 2 Cor 6:1; Eph 2:20–22; 1 Pet 2:5
*Rom 12:3; 15:20; 1 Cor 15:10
*Isa 28:6; Eph 2:20
*1 Cor 4:5; 2 Thess 1:8
*1 Cor 6:19; 2 Cor 6:16