1 Corinthians 3:15

If one's work is burned up, the builder suffers loss yet is still saved, though only as one escaping through flames. Believers may lose reward for poor work but not their salvation.

Cross-references · 10

• 2 Jn 1:8Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.
• 1 Cor 3:12–13But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;
• Jude 1:23and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.
• Rev 3:18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich; and white garments, that you may clothe yourself, and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and eye salve to anoint your eyes, that you may see.
• 1 Pet 4:18“If it is hard for the righteous to be saved, what will happen to the ungodly and the sinner?”
• Zech 3:2Yahweh said to Satan, “Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?”
• Ps 66:12You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.
• Amos 4:11“I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
• Acts 27:21When they had been long without food, Paul stood up in the middle of them, and said, “Sirs, you should have listened to me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.
• Acts 27:44and the rest should follow, some on planks, and some on other things from the ship. So they all escaped safely to the land.

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