Luke 17:9

Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?

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In The King James Version

Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

In Context

8Instead of saying ‘Prepare my dinner, and then make yourself ready and serve me while I am eating and drinking, and after that you will eat and drink yourself’?

10And so with you – when you have done all that you have been told, still say ‘We are but useless servants; we have done no more than we ought to have done.’”

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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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