1st Corinthians Chapter 3 verse 15 Holy Bible
If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
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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.
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If the work of any one shall be consumed, he shall suffer loss, but *he* shall be saved, but so as through [the] fire.
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If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
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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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if of any the work is burned up, he shall suffer loss; and himself shall be saved, but so as through fire.
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1st Corinthians 3 : 15 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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.
