Context 3:14 If what someone has built survives, he will receive a reward.
3:15 If someone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss.1 He himself will be saved, but only as through fire.
[3:15]1tn The translation “[will] be punished” is given here by BDAG 428 s.v. ζημιόω 2. But the next clause says “he will be delivered” and so “suffering loss” is more likely to refer to the destruction of the “work” by fire or the loss of the reward that could have been gained.