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- Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold,silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw - The building materials used to build a new building are being compared to the spiritual values used to build a person's behavior and activities during his lifetime. AT: "whether a person builds with expensive, durable materials or cheap, flammable materials". (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
- precious stones - "expensive stones."
- his work will be revealed, for the daylight will reveal it. - Just as daylight reveals the construction worker's efforts, so will the light of God's presence will reveal the quality of a man's efforts and activities. AT: "daylight will show the quality of his work". (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor).
- For it will be revealed in fire; the fire will test the quality of what each one had done. - Just as Fire will reveal the strengths or destroy the weaknesses of a building, God's fire will judge man's efforts and activities. AT: "Fire will show the quality of his work." (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)