Luke 17:10

I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: ‘We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.’”

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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

9Would he be grateful to that servant, for doing what he commanded him to do?

11And it happened that, while he was traveling to Jerusalem, he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Job 22:2Can man be compared with God, even if he were perfect in knowledge?

Psalms 16:2Let my judgment proceed from your presence. Let your eyes behold fairness.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.

Isaiah 64:6And we have all become like the unclean. And all our justices are like a rag of menstruation. And we have all fallen away, like a leaf. And our iniquities have carried us away, like the wind.

Matthew 25:30And cast that useless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Romans 3:12All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even 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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