If anyone's work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.
Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— each one's work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done.
save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
And “If the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner?”
And the Lord said to Satan, “The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?”
“I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
you let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.
Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, you should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this injury and loss.
and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.
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