1 Corinthians 3:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Jude 1:23 : 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.
  • Rev 3:18 : 18 take my advice and buy gold from me refined by fire so you can become rich! Buy from me white clothing so you can be clothed and your shameful nakedness will not be exposed, and buy eye salve to put on your eyes so you can see!
  • 1 Cor 3:12-13 : 12 If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw, 13 each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.
  • 2 John 1:8 : 8 Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.
  • 1 Pet 4:18 : 18 And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?
  • Ps 66:12 : 12 You allowed men to ride over our heads; we passed through fire and water, but you brought us out into a wide open place.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • 1 Cor 3:8-14
    7 verses
    86%

    8The one who plants and the one who waters work as one, but each will receive his reward according to his work.

    9We are coworkers belonging to God. You are God’s field, God’s building.

    10According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

    11For no one can lay any foundation other than what is being laid, which is Jesus Christ.

    12If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, or straw,

    13each builder’s work will be plainly seen, for the Day will make it clear, because it will be revealed by fire. And the fire will test what kind of work each has done.

    14If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.

  • Jude 1:23
    72%

    23save others by snatching them out of the fire; have mercy on others, coupled with a fear of God, hating even the clothes stained by the flesh.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?

    17If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.

  • John 15:6
    71%

    6If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

  • 2 Pet 3:10-12
    3 verses
    71%

    10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.

    11Since all these things are to melt away in this manner, what sort of people must we be, conducting our lives in holiness and godliness,

    12while waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Because of this day, the heavens will be burned up and dissolve, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze!

  • Ezek 15:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4No! It is thrown in the fire for fuel; when the fire has burned up both ends of it and it is charred in the middle, will it be useful for anything?

    5Indeed! If it was not made into anything useful when it was whole, how much less can it be made into anything when the fire has burned it up and it is charred?

  • 1 Pet 4:18
    70%

    18And if the righteous are barely saved, what will become of the ungodly and sinners?

  • 1 Cor 15:2
    69%

    2and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you– unless you believed in vain.

  • Rev 20:15
    69%

    15If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, that person was thrown into the lake of fire.

  • Mark 9:49
    68%

    49Everyone will be salted with fire.

  • Exod 22:6
    68%

    6“If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or standing grain or the whole field is consumed, the one who started the fire must surely make restitution.

  • Eph 2:9
    67%

    9it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

  • Heb 12:29
    67%

    29For our God is indeed a devouring fire.

  • Mark 9:45
    67%

    45If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

  • Luke 3:17
    67%

    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

  • Luke 17:33
    67%

    33Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

  • 2 Pet 3:7
    67%

    7But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, by being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

  • 2 John 1:8
    67%

    8Watch out, so that you do not lose the things we have worked for, but receive a full reward.

  • 2 Cor 5:10
    66%

    10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.

  • Prov 6:27-28
    2 verses
    66%

    27Can a man hold fire against his chest without burning his clothes?

    28Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

  • 2 Thess 1:9
    66%

    9They will undergo the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his strength,

  • Matt 3:12
    66%

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”

  • Titus 3:5
    66%

    5he saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,

  • Job 22:20
    66%

    20‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

  • Mark 8:35
    66%

    35For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me and because of the gospel will save it.

  • 1 Pet 1:7
    66%

    7Such trials show the proven character of your faith, which is much more valuable than gold– gold that is tested by fire, even though it is passing away– and will bring praise and glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
    66%

    21So if someone cleanses himself of such behavior, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart, useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.

  • 1 Tim 2:15
    66%

    15But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

  • John 3:15
    66%

    15so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

  • Matt 3:10
    66%

    10Even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.

  • Luke 9:24-25
    2 verses
    66%

    24For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will save it.

    25For what does it benefit a person if he gains the whole world but loses or forfeits himself?

  • 2 Pet 3:15
    66%

    15And regard the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as also our dear brother Paul wrote to you, according to the wisdom given to him,

  • Mark 9:43
    66%

    43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! It is better for you to enter into life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, to the unquenchable fire.

  • Heb 6:8
    66%

    8But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is useless and about to be cursed; its fate is to be burned.

  • Matt 16:25
    66%

    25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of me will find it.

  • Acts 15:11
    66%

    11On the contrary, we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, in the same way as they are.”

  • 1 Cor 5:5
    66%

    5hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.

  • Num 31:23
    66%

    23everything that may stand the fire, you are to pass through the fire, and it will be ceremonially clean, but it must still be purified with the water of purification. Anything that cannot withstand the fire you must pass through the water.