Charles Ellicott Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:14

"If any man`s work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward." — 1 Corinthians 3:14 (ASV)

This is the general application to Christian teachers of what has been said previously. Those who have built well will find their reward in their work having survived the trial of the fire; those who have built otherwise will lose everything—their work, which should have remained as their reward, will perish in the fire—and they themselves will be like men who only barely escape by rushing through a conflagration, leaving all that was theirs to be destroyed. (See Mark 9:49.)