Nevermind, I withdraw my objections raised previously because I can now see I was in error. I apologize for the confusion I caused. The “works” described in this passage are “works” done by each man to build up “the Church” and thus the “building” (or “field”) is the Church, not each individual member’s life. Again I was wrong and you were right and I ask for your forgiveness and the forgiveness of any one else misled by my words.
I still humbly submit though that the passage describes a particular judgement of those works, and this judgement is a future event that is a trial by fire (or like it anyway) and even the “saved” go through it. I don’t see why the concept of “Purgatory” is antithetical to that passage (esp verse 13).
Each individual soul is the temple of the Holy Spirit (the Apostle Paul was explicit in chapter six) and look at the language again: “one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos”; he is writing about husbandry and buildings which are individuals (although they are part of one body). If a man’s work suffer loss because it is burned, and he is said himself to suffer loss but be saved himself by fire, how could it not be speaking of his work as himself ? Compare with both epistles of the Apostle Peter.