1 Corinthians 3:15
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.

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.

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.

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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.

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If any mans work burn, 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, fire tried, that thou mayest be made rich and mayest be clothed in white garments: and that the shame of thy nakedness may not appear. And anoint thy eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

he shall.

Acts 27:21,44 And after they had fasted a long time, Paul standing forth in the midst of them, said: You should indeed, O ye men, have hearkened unto me and not have loosed from Crete and have gained this harm and loss. . . .

2 John 1:8 Look to yourselves, that you lose not the things which you have wrought: but that you may receive a full reward.

yet.

Amos 4:11 I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord.

Zechariah 3:2 And the Lord said to Satan: The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan: and the Lord that chose Jerusalem rebuke thee: Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

1 Peter 4:18 And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Jude 1:23 But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

Context
Christ Our Foundation
14If any man's work abide, which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15If any mans work burn, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. 16Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?…
Cross References
Job 23:10
But he knoweth my way, and has tried me as gold that passeth through the fire:

Psalm 66:10
For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us by fire, as silver is tried.

Psalm 66:12
Thou hast set men over our heads. We have passed through fire and water, and thou hast brought us out into a refreshment.

Jude 1:23
But others save, pulling them out of the fire. And on others have mercy, in fear, hating also the spotted garment which is carnal.

1 Corinthians 3:14
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