1 Corinthians 3:14 (WEB)
If any man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
Catechism · 1
“By rejecting grace in this life, one already judges oneself, receives according to one's works, and can even condemn oneself for all eternity by rejecting the Spirit of love.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 3:18; 12:48; Mt 12:32; I Cor 3:12-15; Heb 6:4-6; 10:26-31.
Fathers and councils · 9
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus IV.13Book IV
“If any man’s work be burned, he shall suffer loss.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. iii. 13–15.
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Gregory of Nyssa
“…on the sweat of toil as more honourable than the relaxation of repose, knowing well that just as every man, as saith the Apostle, shall receive his own reward according to his own labour, so as a matter of course he shall receive punishment for neglect of labour proportioned to his strength.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 14.
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Augustine of Hippo
“He knows too that now is the time for turning unto God: for when this life shall have passed away, there remaineth but a retribution of our deserts.” — editor's note: [St. Augustin, whatever he may have imagined of the fire that is to purify at the last day (1 Cor. iii. 13–15), knew nothing of an intermediate purgatory.…
Read the whole comment“For all that, though we should be “saved by fire,” yet will that fire be more grievous than anything that man can suffer in this life whatsoever.…” — editor's note: [See Augustin’s ideas as to a possible meaning of the text 1 Cor. iii. 11–15 in vol. ii. this series, p. 474. He there propounds, as a conjecture merely, a…
Read the whole comment“But if any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 11–15.
Read the whole comment“…what he loved he shall not retain:—“ but he himself shall be saved,”—for no tribulation shall have moved him from that stable foundation,—“yet so as by fire;” for that which he possessed with the sweetness of love he does not lose without the sharp sting of pain.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 14, 15.
Read the whole comment“Chapter 68.—The True Sense of the Passage (I Cor. III. 11–15) About Those Who are Saved, Yet So as by Fire.” — the author cites it
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Jerome
“Bear in mind, then, I pray you, the apostle’s precept that we should make our work abiding; prepare for yourself a reward from the Lord in my sister’s salvation; and by frequent letters increase my joy in that glory in Christ which we share together.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 14.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“Perhaps in it they will be baptized with Fire, in that last Baptism which is more painful and longer, which devours wood like grass, and consumes the stubble of every evil.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. iii. 12–19.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in Against Celsus IV.13.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.21.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26.
Cited together in The City of God XXI.26.