Luke 17:10

So also you, when you may have done all the things directed you, say, We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do we have done.”

Literal Standard Version

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

9Does he have favor to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

11And it came to pass, in His going on to Jerusalem, that He passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

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Cross References

Job 22:2“Is a man profitable to God, || Because a wise man is profitable to himself?

Psalms 16:2You have said to YHWH, “You [are] my Lord”; My goodness [is] not above You;

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering the spirits.

Isaiah 64:6And we are as unclean—all of us, || And all our righteous acts [are] as garments of menstruation; And we fade as a leaf—all of us. And our iniquities take us away as wind.

Matthew 25:30and cast forth the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

Romans 3:12All went out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing 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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