Luke 17:10

I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

9Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him?

11And it came to pass, as he was going 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 though he were of perfect knowledge?

Psalms 16:2I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits.

Isaiah 64:6And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Matthew 25:30And the unprofitable servant cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Romans 3:12All have turned out of the way; they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, 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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