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15 But if any person’s work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire.(A)

16 Do you not discern and understand that you [the whole church at Corinth] are God’s temple (His sanctuary), and that God’s Spirit has His permanent dwelling in you [to be at home in you, [a]collectively as a church and also individually]?

17 If anyone [b]does hurt to God’s temple or corrupts it [[c]with false doctrines] or destroys it, God will [d]do hurt to him and bring him to the corruption of death and destroy him. For the temple of God is holy (sacred to Him) and that [temple] you [[e]the believing church and its individual believers] are.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 3:16 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  2. 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
  3. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.
  4. 1 Corinthians 3:17 The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges.
  5. 1 Corinthians 3:17 Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Holy Bible.

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