Luke 17:10
So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
9Does he thank the servant because he did what he was told?
11While Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem, He was passing between Samaria and Galilee.
Cross References
Job 22:2“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
Proverbs 16:2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
Matthew 25:30And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Romans 3:12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, 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 →