Luke 17:10

Thus ye also, when ye did all the things that were commanded you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen, because we have done what we are obligated to do.

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In The King James Version

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

In Context

9Does he have a favor for that bondman because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

11And it came to pass as he went to Jerusalem, that he was passing through the middle of Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Job 22:2Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

Psalms 16:2Thou [my soul] have said to LORD, Thou are my LORD. I have no good beyond thee.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the spirits.

Isaiah 64:6For we have all become as unclean, and all our righteous acts are as a polluted garment. And we all fade as a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable bondman into the outer darkness. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Romans 3:12All turned away. Together they became useless. There is not a man who does goodness; there is not as much as one.

Matthew Henry on Luke 17:2-11

The Treatment of Offences. 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →

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