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1 Corinthians 3:14
If a man builds on work that lasts, he will receive his reward.
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Christian Standard Bible®
If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
King James Version (1611)
If any mans worke abide which he hath built thereupon, he shal receiue a reward.
If any mans worke abide which he hath built thereupon, he shal receiue a reward.
King James Version
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
English Standard Version
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
New American Standard Bible
If anyone's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If anyone's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
New Century Version
If the building that has been put on the foundation still stands, the builder will get a reward.
If the building that has been put on the foundation still stands, the builder will get a reward.
Amplified Bible
If any person's work which he has built [on this foundation, that is, any outcome of his effort] remains [and survives this test], he will receive a reward.
If any person's work which he has built [on this foundation, that is, any outcome of his effort] remains [and survives this test], he will receive a reward.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
Legacy Standard Bible
If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
If any man's work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
Berean Standard Bible
If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
Contemporary English Version
We will be rewarded if our building is left standing.
We will be rewarded if our building is left standing.
Complete Jewish Bible
If the work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward;
If the work someone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward;
Darby Translation
If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.
If the work of any one which he has built upon [the foundation] shall abide, he shall receive a reward.
Easy-to-Read Version
If the building they put on the foundation still stands, they will get their reward.
If the building they put on the foundation still stands, they will get their reward.
Geneva Bible (1587)
If any mans worke, that he hath built vpon, abide, he shall receiue wages.
If any mans worke, that he hath built vpon, abide, he shall receiue wages.
George Lamsa Translation
And the builder whose work survives shall receive his reward.
And the builder whose work survives shall receive his reward.
Good News Translation
If what was built on the foundation survives the fire, the builder will receive a reward.
If what was built on the foundation survives the fire, the builder will receive a reward.
Lexham English Bible
If anyone's work that he has built upon it remains, he will receive a reward.
If anyone's work that he has built upon it remains, he will receive a reward.
Literal Translation
If the work of anyone which he built remains, he will receive a reward.
If the work of anyone which he built remains, he will receive a reward.
American Standard Version
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
Bible in Basic English
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
If any man's work comes through the test, he will have a reward.
Hebrew Names Version
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
International Standard Version
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If what a person has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.receive wages">[fn]1 Corinthians 4:5;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And he whose work which he builded shall abide, will receive his recompense;
And he whose work which he builded shall abide, will receive his recompense;
Murdock Translation
And that builder whose work shall endure, will receive his reward.
And that builder whose work shall endure, will receive his reward.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If any mans worke that he hath built vpon abyde, he shall receaue a reward.
If any mans worke that he hath built vpon abyde, he shall receaue a reward.
English Revised Version
If any man’s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man’s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
World English Bible
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
If any man's work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If any one's work which he hath built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.
If any one's work which he hath built thereon shall remain, he shall receive a reward.
Weymouth's New Testament
If any one's work--the building which he has erected--stands the test, he will be rewarded.
If any one's work--the building which he has erected--stands the test, he will be rewarded.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If the werk of ony man dwelle stille, which he bildide aboue, he schal resseyue mede.
If the werk of ony man dwelle stille, which he bildide aboue, he schal resseyue mede.
Update Bible Version
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward.
Webster's Bible Translation
If any man's work abideth which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward.
If any man's work abideth which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward.
New English Translation
If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.
If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.
New King James Version
If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
If anyone's work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward.
New Living Translation
If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward.
If the work survives, that builder will receive a reward.
New Revised Standard
If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward.
If what has been built on the foundation survives, the builder will receive a reward.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, anyone's work, shall abide, which he built, a reward, shall he receive, -
If, anyone's work, shall abide, which he built, a reward, shall he receive, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
If any man’s work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
If any man’s work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
Revised Standard Version
If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Yf eny mannes worke yt he hath bylt apon byde he shall receave a rewarde.
Yf eny mannes worke yt he hath bylt apon byde he shall receave a rewarde.
Young's Literal Translation
if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive;
if of any one the work doth remain that he built on [it], a wage he shall receive;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf eny mans worke that he hath buylde theron, abyde, he shal receaue a rewarde:
Yf eny mans worke that he hath buylde theron, abyde, he shal receaue a rewarde:
Mace New Testament (1729)
if the work abide which somebody has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
if the work abide which somebody has built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.
THE MESSAGE
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If their work survives, then that cowboy will be shown as a top hand.
If their work survives, then that cowboy will be shown as a top hand.
Contextual Overview
11 Jesus Christ is the Stone on which other stones for the building must be laid. It can be only Christ. 12 Now if a man builds on the Stone with gold or silver or beautiful stones, or if he builds with wood or grass or straw, 13 each man's work will become known. There will be a day when it will be tested by fire. The fire will show what kind of work it is. 14 If a man builds on work that lasts, he will receive his reward. 15 If his work is burned up, he will lose it. Yet he himself will be saved as if he were going through a fire.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
1 Corinthians 3:8, 1 Corinthians 4:5, Daniel 12:3, Matthew 24:45-47, Matthew 25:21-23, 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 2 Timothy 4:7, 1 Peter 5:1, 1 Peter 5:4, Revelation 2:8-11
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 15:7 - your work 1 Corinthians 3:13 - man's 1 Corinthians 9:17 - have 1 Corinthians 13:13 - abideth 2 John 1:8 - that we receive Revelation 22:12 - and my
Cross-References
Genesis 3:1
Now the snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?"
Now the snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:15
And I will make you and the woman hate each other, and your seed and her seed will hate each other. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel."
And I will make you and the woman hate each other, and your seed and her seed will hate each other. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel."
Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever takes the life of a man will have his life taken. For God made man to be like Him.
Whoever takes the life of a man will have his life taken. For God made man to be like Him.
Leviticus 20:25
You are to know the difference between the clean animal and the animal that is unclean, and between the clean bird and the bird that is unclean. Do not make yourselves a sinful people with animal or bird or anything that moves on the ground, which I have set apart from you as being unclean.
You are to know the difference between the clean animal and the animal that is unclean, and between the clean bird and the bird that is unclean. Do not make yourselves a sinful people with animal or bird or anything that moves on the ground, which I have set apart from you as being unclean.
Psalms 72:9
Those who live in the desert will put their faces to the ground before Him. And those who hate Him will kiss the dust.
Those who live in the desert will put their faces to the ground before Him. And those who hate Him will kiss the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
Then you will be brought low. From the earth you will speak. Your words will come from the dust. Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground. Your quiet speaking will come from the dust.
Then you will be brought low. From the earth you will speak. Your words will come from the dust. Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground. Your quiet speaking will come from the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will eat together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. And dust will be the snake's food. They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain," says the Lord.
The wolf and the lamb will eat together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. And dust will be the snake's food. They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain," says the Lord.
Micah 7:17
They will eat the dust like a snake, like animals that move along the ground. They will come out of their strong-places shaking with fear. They will come in much fear to the Lord our God, and they will be afraid of You.
They will eat the dust like a snake, like animals that move along the ground. They will come out of their strong-places shaking with fear. They will come in much fear to the Lord our God, and they will be afraid of You.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If any man's work abide,.... That is, if any minister's doctrine will bear the test of daylight, to be looked into, and abide the fire of the word; as gold, silver, and precious stones will, or such doctrines as are comparable to them, which will shine the brighter for being tried by this fire:
which he hath built thereupon; upon the foundation Christ, in entire consistence with, and proportion to it, and highly becoming it:
he shall receive a reward; either from the churches of Christ here, who shall honour and respect him for his faithful labours in the ministry; or from Christ hereafter, who will say, well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
If any manâs work abide ... - If it shall appear that he hast taught the true doctrines of Christianity, and inculcated right practices and views of piety, and himself cherished right feelings: if the trial of the great Day, when the real qualities of all objects shall be known, shall show this.
He shall receive a reward - According to the nature of his work. See the note on 1 Corinthians 3:8. This refers, I suppose, to the proper rewards on the Day of Judgment, and not to the honors and the recompense which he may receive in this world. If all that he has taught and done shall be proved to have been genuine and pure, then his reward shall be in proportion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 1 Corinthians 3:14. If any man's work abide — Perhaps there is here an allusion to the purifying of different sorts of vessels under the law. All that could stand the fire were to be purified by the fire; and those which could not resist the action of the fire were to be purified by water, Numbers 31:23. The gold, silver, and precious stones, could stand the fire; but the wood, hay, and stubble, must be necessarily consumed. So, in that great and terrible day of the Lord, all false doctrine, as well as the system that was to pass away, should be made sufficiently manifest; and God would then show that the Gospel, and that alone, was that system of doctrine which he should bless and protect, and none other.
He shall receive a reward. — He has not only preached the truth, but he has laboured in the word and doctrine. And the reward is to be according to the labour. See note on 1 Corinthians 3:8.
