1 Corinthians 3:15 Parallel Translations

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.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

ASV:

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

BBE:

If the fire puts an end to any man's work, it will be his loss: but he will get salvation himself, though as by fire.

DBY:

If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but he shall be saved, but so as through the fire.

ERV:

If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.

WEY:

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.

WBS:

If any man's work shall be burned, he will suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

WEB:

If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, but as through fire.

YLT:

if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.

1 Corinthians 3:15 Cross References

XREF:

Job 23:10 "But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Psalm 66:10 For You have tried us, O God; You have refined us as silver is refined.

Psalm 66:12 You made men ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water, Yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.

Jude 1:23 save others, snatching them out of the fire; and on some have mercy with fear, hating even the garment polluted by the flesh. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

3:15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but {8} he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
(8) He does not take away the hope of salvation from the unskilful and foolish builders, who hold fast the foundation, of which sort were those rhetoricians, rather than the pastors of Corinth. However, he adds an exception, that they must nonetheless suffer this trial of their work, and also abide the loss of their vain labours.

PNT:

3:15 If any man's work shall be burned. Shall perish as worthless. Such an one will forfeit his reward.
He himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire. He is saved, because he intended well, but is barely saved, like one who escapes from a burning house where all his property is consumed.

WES:

3:15 He shall suffer loss - The loss of that peculiar degree of glory.

MHC:

3:10-15 The apostle was a wise master-builder; but the grace of God made him such. Spiritual pride is abominable; it is using the greatest favours of God, to feed our own vanity, and make idols of ourselves. But let every man take heed; there may be bad building on a good foundation. Nothing must be laid upon it, but what the foundation will bear, and what is of a piece with it. Let us not dare to join a merely human or a carnal life with a Divine faith, the corruption of sin with the profession of Christianity. Christ is a firm, abiding, and immovable Rock of ages, every way able to bear all the weight that God himself or the sinner can lay upon him; neither is there salvation in any other. Leave out the doctrine of his atonement, and there is no foundation for our hopes. But of those who rest on this foundation, there are two sorts. Some hold nothing but the truth as it is in Jesus, and preach nothing else. Others build on the good foundation what will not abide the test, when the day of trail comes. We may be mistaken in ourselves and others; but there is a day coming that will show our actions in the true light, without covering or disguise. Those who spread true and pure religion in all its branches, and whose work will abide in the great day, shall receive a reward. And how great! how much exceeding their deserts! There are others, whose corrupt opinions and doctrines, or vain inventions and usages in the worship of God, shall be made known, disowned, and rejected, in that day. This is plainly meant of a figurative fire, not of a real one; for what real fire can consume religious rites or doctrines? And it is to try every man's works, those of Paul and Apollos, as well as others. Let us consider the tendency of our undertakings, compare them with God's word, and judge ourselves, that we be not judged of the Lord.

CONC:

Burned Burnt Consumed Escaping Fire Flames Loss Man's One's Passing Puts Rescued Salvation Saved Suffer Though Yet

Burned Burnt Consumed End Escaping Fire Flames Loss One's Passing Puts Rescued Salvation Saved Suffer Work

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