1 Corinthians 3:10-17

Divisions in the Church

¹⁰ _r According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a _s foundation, and _t someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. ¹¹ For no one can lay a _u foundation other _v than that which is laid, _w which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw - ¹³ _x each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed _y by fire, and _z the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. ¹⁴ If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, _a he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, _b but only as through fire.

¹⁶ _c Do you not know that you ₁ are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For _d God's temple is holy, and you are that temple.

1. Cross References
   2 Peter 3:15
   And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him.
   Romans 12:3
   For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 3:11 - 12
   For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
   Romans 15:20
   And thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation.
   Revelation 21:14
   And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 4:15
   For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
   
4. Cross References
   Isaiah 28:16
   Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
   
5. Cross References
   2 Corinthians 11:4
   For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.
   Galatians 1:6 - 7
   I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel -
   
6. Cross References
   Ephesians 2:20
   Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.
   
7. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 4:5
   Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.
   
8. Cross References
   1 Corinthians 3:15
   If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
   2 Thessalonians 1:8
   In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
   
9. Cross References
   1 Peter 1:7
   So that the tested genuineness of your faith - more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire - may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
   
10. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 3:8
    He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor.
    
11. Cross References
    Psalms 66:12
    You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
    Isaiah 43:2
    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.
    Jude 1:23
    Save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
    
12. Cross References
    1 Corinthians 6:19
    Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own.
    2 Corinthians 6:16
    What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
    Ephesians 2:21
    In whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.
    
13. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 7:1
    Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.