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1 Corinthians 3:15
1 Corinthians 3:15 is verse 15 of 1 Corinthians chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
King James Version
If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by 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.
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1 Corinthians 3:13–17 · Berean Standard Bible
13 his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
14 If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward.
15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames.
16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Corinthians 3:12If anyone builds on this foundation using gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,
1 Corinthians 3:13his workmanship will be evident, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the quality of each man’s work.
Revelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
Acts 27:21After the men had gone a long time without food, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have followed my advice not to sail from Crete. Then you would have averted this disaster and loss.
Acts 27:44The rest were to follow on planks and various parts of the ship. In this way everyone was brought safely to land.
2 John 1:8Watch yourselves, so that you do not lose what we have worked for, but that you may be fully rewarded.
Amos 4:11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Zechariah 3:2And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”
1 Peter 4:18And, “If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
Jude 1:23save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.