If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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Gill's Exposition
If any man's work shall be burnt,.... If any minister's doctrine he has preached shall be destroyed and disappear, shall be disapproved of, and rejected by the churches, not being able, to bear the…
Barnes' Notes
If any man’s work shall be burned - If it shall not be found to hear the test of the investigation of that Day - as a cottage of wood, hay, and stubble would not bear the application of fire. If his…
Adam Clarke
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss - If he have preached the necessity of incorporating the law with the Gospel, or proclaimed as a doctrine of God any thing which did not proceed…
Here the apostle informs us what foundation he had laid at the bottom of all his labours among them - even Jesus Christ, the chief corner-stone, Eph 2:20. Upon this foundation all the faithful…
Cambridge Bible
yet so as by fire The absolute equality of all in the world to come is no part of St Paul's system. -One star differeth from another star in glory" (ch. 1Co 15:41). But the history of the Apostle…
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