1 Corinthians 3:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

1 Corinthians 3:15 —

Old words in this verse

suffer: — often: allow, permit.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

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2 John 1:8
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
1 Corinthians 3:12-13
Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; …
Jude 1:23
And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Revelation 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
1 Peter 4:18
And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-15)

Here the apostle informs us what foundation he had laid at the bottom of all his labours among them— even Jesus Christ, the chief corner-stone, Eph. 2:20. Upon this foundation all the faithful ministers of Christ build. Upon this rock all the Christians found their hopes. Those that build their hopes of heaven on any other foundation build upon the sand. Other foundation can no man lay besides wha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. If ... be burnt--if any teacher’s work consist of such materials as the fire will destroy [Alford]. suffer loss--that is, forfeit the special “reward”; not that he shall lose salvation (which is altogether a free gift, not a “reward” or wages), for he remains still on the foundation (1Co 3:12; 2Jo 6). saved; yet so as by fire--rather, “so as through fire” (Zec 3:2; Am 4:11; Jude 23). “Saved, y…