1 CORINTHIANS 3:15 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.”
If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved — even as one escaping through the flames — if the materials burn (wood, hay, straw), the builder loses their work's reward but 'will be saved' (sōthēsetai). The image 'as one escaping through the flames' (hōs dia pyros) is vivid: barely rescued. This indicates judgment on deeds, not on persons; believers are saved but may suffer loss of reward.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 3:15
This is no small subject of enquiry which we propose, but rather about things which are of the first necessity and which all men enquire about; namely, whether hell fire have any end. For that it has no end Christ indeed declared when he said, “Their fire shall not be quenched, and their worm shall not die.” [Mark 8:44, 46, 48.] Well: I know that a chill comes over you (ναρκᾶτε) on hearing these things; but what am I to do? For this is God's own command, continually to sound…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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