Luke 17:10

Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.

Revised Version 1895

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

9Doth he thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded?

11And it came to pass, as they were on the way to Jerusalem, that he was passing through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Job 22:2Can a man be profitable unto God? surely he that is wise is profitable unto himself.

Psalms 16:2I have said unto the LORD, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes: but the LORD weigheth the spirits.

Isaiah 64:6For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

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

Romans 3:12They have all turned aside, they are together become unprofitable; There is none that doeth 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 →

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