12. A person may build on it using gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay or straw.
13. But each person's work will be shown for what it is. On judgment day it will be brought to light. It will be put through fire. The fire will test how good everyone's work is.
14. If the building doesn't burn up, God will give the builder a reward for his work.
15. If the building burns up, the builder will lose everything. The builder will be saved, but only like one escaping through the flames.
16. Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple? God's Spirit lives in you.
17. If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. God's temple is holy. And you are that temple.
18. Don't fool yourselves. Suppose some of you think you are wise by the standards of the world. Then you should become a "fool" so that you can become wise.
19. The wisdom of this world is foolish in God's eyes. It is written, "God catches wise people in their own tricks." (Job 5:13)
20. It is also written, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise don't amount to anything." (Psalm 94:11)