Luke 17:10

"Even so, you also, after you have done all the things that are commanded you, should say, ‘We are but slaves, we have only done what it was our duty to do.’"

Montgomery New Testament

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

9"Does he think the slave because he did the things that were commanded?

11Now it happened that as he went his way to Jerusalem, he passed between Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:30"‘But cast out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.’

Romans 3:12All have swerved from the right path; Every one of them has become corrupt. There is none that practises 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 →

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