1 Corinthians 3:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἑκάστου τὸ ἔργον φανερὸν γενήσεται: ἡ γὰρ ἡμέρα δηλώσει, ὅτι ἐν πυρὶ ἀποκαλύπτεται· καὶ ἑκάστου τὸ ἔργον ὁποῖόν ἐστιν τὸ πῦρ δοκιμάσει.

Transliteration

Of each the ergon phaneron genēsetai: the gar hēmera dēlōsei, because in pyri apokalyptetai; and of each the ergon hopoion estin the pyr dokimasei.

Grammar Details

• *ergon*: noun, neuter, nominative, singular - work
• *phaneron*: adjective, neuter, nominative, singular - manifest/evident
• *genēsetai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will become
• *gar*: conjunction - for/because
• *hēmera*: noun, feminine, nominative, singular - day
• *dēlōsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will reveal/make clear
• *pyri*: noun, neuter, dative, singular - fire
• *apokalyptetai*: present passive indicative, 3rd person singular - is being revealed
• *hopoion*: correlative pronoun, neuter, nominative, singular - of what sort
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *pyr*: noun, neuter, nominative, singular - fire
• *dokimasei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will test/prove

Word Meanings

• *ergon*: work/deed/labor
• *phaneron*: manifest/evident/visible
• *genēsetai*: will become/will be made
• *hēmera*: day/time of judgment
• *dēlōsei*: will reveal/make clear/show
• *apokalyptetai*: is being revealed/disclosed/uncovered
• *hopoion*: of what sort/quality/kind
• *dokimasei*: will test/prove/examine

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Wherefore judge {G5100} nothing before {G302} the time, until the Lord come, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and make manifest the counsels of the hearts; and then shall each man have his praise from God.
• 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
• Rev 20:12 : 12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.
• 1 Cor 3:14-15 : 14 If any man's work shall abide which he built thereon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as through fire.
• 1 Cor 1:8 : 8 who shall also confirm you unto the end, [that ye be] unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus: 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.
• 2 Tim 1:18 : 18 (the Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
• 1 Pet 4:12 : 12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial among you, which cometh upon you to prove you, as though a strange thing happened unto you:
• 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; {G1722} {G3571} in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein {G846} shall be burned up.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• Rom 2:16 : 16 in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, according to my gospel, by Jesus Christ.
• Mal 3:17 : 17 And they shall be mine, saith Jehovah of hosts, [even] mine own possession, in the day that I make; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
• Luke 2:35 : 35 yea and a sword shall pierce through thine own soul; {G2532} that thoughts out of many hearts {G302} may be revealed.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Isa 28:17 : 17 And I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
• Jer 23:29 : 29 Is not my word like fire? saith Jehovah; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
• Ezek 13:10-16 : 10 Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar]: 11 say unto them that daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it. 12 Lo, when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto you, Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my wrath; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in wrath to consume it. 14 So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered [mortar], and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be uncovered; and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 15 Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall, and upon them that have daubed it with untempered [mortar]; and I will say unto you, The wall is no more, neither they that daubed it; 16 [ to wit], the prophets of Israel that prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and that see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord Jehovah.
• 2 Tim 3:9 : 9 But they shall proceed no further. For their folly shall be evident unto all men, as theirs also came to be.