Luke 17:10

Even so you also, when you have done everything that you are commanded, should say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have only done what we ought to do.'”

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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

9He does not thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded, does he?

11It came about that as he traveled to Jerusalem, he went along the border between Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Job 22:2“Can a man be useful to God? 1 Can a wise man be useful to him? 1

Psalms 16:2I say to Yahweh, “You are my Lord; my goodness is nothing apart from you. 1

Proverbs 16:2All of a person's ways are pure in his own eyes, 1 but Yahweh weighs the spirits. 1

Isaiah 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a menstrual rag. 1 We have all withered like leaves; our iniquities, like the wind, carry us away. 1

Matthew 25:30Throw the worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.'

Romans 3:12They have all turned away. They together have become useless. 1 There is no one who does good, no, not even one.” 1

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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