Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames. New Living Translation But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builder will be saved, but like someone barely escaping through a wall of flames. English Standard Version If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire. Berean Standard Bible If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. Berean Literal Bible If the work of anyone will be burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, but so as through fire. King James Bible If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. New King James Version If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. New American Standard Bible If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet only so as through fire. NASB 1995 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. NASB 1977 If any man’s work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as through fire. Legacy Standard Bible If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Amplified Bible But if any person’s work is burned up [by the test], he will suffer the loss [of his reward]; yet he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has barely escaped] through fire. Christian Standard Bible If anyone’s work is burned up, he will experience loss, but he himself will be saved —but only as through fire. Holman Christian Standard Bible If anyone’s work is burned up, it will be lost, but he will be saved; yet it will be like an escape through fire. American Standard Version If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire. Aramaic Bible in Plain English And whosever work will burn up will suffer loss, but he shall escape, but as if by fire. Contemporary English Version But if it is destroyed by the fire, we will lose everything. Yet we ourselves will be saved, like someone escaping from flames. Douay-Rheims Bible If any man's work burn, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. English Revised Version If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire. GOD'S WORD® Translation If his work is burned up, he will suffer [the loss]. However, he will be saved, though it will be like going through a fire. Good News Translation But if your work is burnt up, then you will lose it; but you yourself will be saved, as if you had escaped through the fire. International Standard Version If his work is burned up, he will suffer loss. However, he himself will be saved, but it will be like going through fire. Literal Standard Version if the work of any is burned up, he will suffer loss, but himself will be saved, but so as through fire. Majority Standard Bible If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. New American Bible But if someone’s work is burned up, that one will suffer loss; the person will be saved, but only as through fire. NET Bible If someone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire. New Revised Standard Version If the work is burned up, the builder will suffer loss; the builder will be saved, but only as through fire. New Heart English Bible If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. Webster's Bible Translation If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. Weymouth New Testament If any one's work is burnt up, he will suffer the loss of it; yet he will himself be rescued, but only, as it were, by passing through the fire. World English Bible If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire. Young's Literal Translation if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Christ Our Foundation…14If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. 15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 16Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?… Cross References Job 23:10 Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold. Psalm 66:10 For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver. Psalm 66:12 You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance. Jude 1:23 save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. Treasury of Scripture If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. work. 1 Corinthians 3:12,13 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; … Revelation 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see. he shall. Acts 27:21,44 But after long abstinence Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss… 2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. yet. Amos 4:11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD. Zechariah 3:2 And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire? 1 Peter 4:18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? Jump to Previous Burned Burnt Consumed End Escaping Fire Flames Loss One's Passing Puts Rescued Salvation Saved Suffer WorkJump to Next Burned Burnt Consumed End Escaping Fire Flames Loss One's Passing Puts Rescued Salvation Saved Suffer Work1 Corinthians 3 1. Milk is fit for children.3. Strife and division, arguments of a fleshly mind. 7. He who plants and He who waters are nothing. 9. The ministers are God's fellow workmen. 11. Christ the only foundation. 16. You are the temples of God, which must be kept holy. 19. The wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. (15) So as.--These words remind us that the whole passage, and especially the reference to fire, is to be regarded as metaphorical, and not to be understood in a literal and physical sense. Forgetting this, Roman divines have evolved from these words the doctrine of purgatory.Verse 15. - He shall suffer loss. He shall not receive the full reward to which he might otherwise look (2 John 1:8). He himself shall be saved. It is an inexpressible source of comfort to us, amid the weakness and ignorance of our lives, to know that if we have only erred through human frailty and feebleness, while yet we desired to be sincere and faithful, the work will be burnt, yet the workman will be saved. Some of the Fathers gave to this beautiful verse the shockingly perverted meaning that "the workman would be preserved alive for endless torments," "salted with fire" in order to endure interminable agonies. The meaning is impossible, for it reverses the sense of the word "saved;" and makes it equivalent to "damned;" but the interpretation is an awful proof of the distortions to which a merciless human rigorism and a hard, self styled orthodoxy have sometimes subjected the Word of God. Yet so as by fire; rather, through or by means of fire (διὰ πυρός). We may be, as it were, "snatched as a brand from the burning" (Zechariah 3:2; Amos 4:11; Jude 1:23), and "scarcely" saved (1 Peter 4:18). Similarly it is said in 1 Peter 3:20 that Noah was saved "through water" (δι ὕδατος). The ship is lost, the sailor saved; the workman is saved, the work is burned. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Ifεἴ (ei) Conjunction Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc. [it] τινος (tinos) Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Singular Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object. is burned up, κατακαήσεται (katakaēsetai) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2618: To burn up, consume entirely. From kata and kaio; to burn down, i.e. Consume wholly. he will suffer loss. ζημιωθήσεται (zēmiōthēsetai) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 2210: From zemia; to injure, i.e. to experience detriment. He himself αὐτὸς (autos) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. will be saved, σωθήσεται (sōthēsetai) Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect. but only δὲ (de) Conjunction Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc. as if ὡς (hōs) Adverb Strong's 5613: Probably adverb of comparative from hos; which how, i.e. In that manner. through διὰ (dia) Preposition Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through. [the] flames. πυρός (pyros) Noun - Genitive Neuter Singular Strong's 4442: Fire; the heat of the sun, lightning; fig: strife, trials; the eternal fire. A primary word; 'fire'. 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