1 Corinthians 3:10-17

What if I, resembling a good and skilful architect, laid a foundation on which another is building? My function was an expression of God’s own grace imparted to me, and all the building similarly is of God, its parts expressing the grace which He confers. If a man misapply his own mission, and attempt to lay a foundation other than that already laid which is Christ Jesus, let him be sure he will receive the appropriate reward for such a corruption and reversal of the grace God gave him. Or if, instead of building on this foundation gold and silver and costly marble and stone, he build wood, thatch, straw, he shall certainly receive the appropriate reward of this faithlessness. The fire will burn up his work. The great day of truth will dawn, and reveal his faithless evil work, and the havoc he has made of the Church. It will all be destroyed, all pass away, yet shall he himself thereby be saved. For this is God’s temple, God’s building, the Spirit of God dwells here, and you yourselves are the one building of God, and therefore not one shall perish though the evil doer reap his own destruction.