1st Corinthians Chapter 3 verse 14 Holy Bible
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
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If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
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If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.
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If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
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If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
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if of any one the work doth remain that he built on `it', a wage he shall receive;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - If any man's work shall abide. St. Paul is speaking primarily of teachers, though, of course, his words apply by analogy to all believers. He shall receive a reward. One of the teacher's rewards will be his converts (1 Thessalonians 2:19), who will be "his joy and crown of glorying" (Philippians 2:16); another will be "a crown of glory that fadeth not away" (1 Peter 5:2, 4; Daniel 12:3); yet another will be fresh opportunities for higher labour (Matthew 25:23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) This is the general application to Christian teachers of what has gone before. Those who have built well shall have their reward in their work having survived the trial of the fire; those who have built otherwise shall lose everything--their work, which should have remained as their reward, will perish in the fire--and they themselves will be as men who only make good their escape by rushing through a conflagration, leaving all that was theirs to be destroyed. (See Mark 9:49.)
