Luke 17:10

So also ye, when ye have done all the things commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants, for we have done only what we were obligated to do.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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

9Hath he thanks for him, because the servant did what was commanded him? I think not.

11And it occurred as Jesus advanced towards Jerusalem, that he passed among the Samaritans into Galilee.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:30And cast ye the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Romans 3:12They have all turned aside, together; and become reprobates. 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 →

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