Luke 17:10
Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”
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In Context
9Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
11As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.
Cross References
Job 22:2“Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
Psalms 16:2My soul, you have said to the LORD, “You are my Lord. Apart from you I have no good thing.”
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives.
Isaiah 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Matthew 25:30Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Romans 3:12They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as 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 →