Luke 17:10
Likewise once you've done everything you were told, you should simply say, ‘We are undeserving servants. We just did our duty.’”
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In Context
9And do you thank the servant for doing what you told him? No.
11As Jesus continued on his way to Jerusalem, he passed along the border between Samaria and Galilee.
Cross References
Job 22:2“How can anyone be of help to God? Even wise people are only helpful to themselves.
Psalms 16:2I tell the Lord, “Apart from you Lord, I don't have anything that's good.”
Proverbs 16:2People think that whatever they do is fine, but the Lord looks at their intentions.
Isaiah 64:6We've all become unclean, and all the good things we do are like dirty rags. We wither and die like autumn leaves, and our sins, like the wind, blow us away.
Matthew 25:30Now throw this useless servant out into the darkness where there'll be crying and gnashing of teeth.’
Romans 3:12Everyone has turned their backs on him; everyone does what is totally wrong. No one does what is good, not a single 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 →