Luke 17:10

Thus *ye* also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.

Darby Translation

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

9Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not.

11And it came to pass as he was going up to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Job 22:2Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.

Psalms 16:2Thou [my soul] hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee;

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

Isaiah 64:6And we are all become as an unclean [thing], and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

Matthew 25:30And cast out the useless bondman into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

Romans 3:12All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so 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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