Luke 17:10
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.
King James Version
In Context
9Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.
Cross References
Job 22:2Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?
Psalms 16:2O my soul, thou hast said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Isaiah 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Romans 3:12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not 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 →