Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all the things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which it was our duty to do.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
9Doth he thank that servant, because he did the things that were commanded him? I suppose not.
Cross References
Job 22:2Can a man be profitable to God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself?
Psalms 16:2O my soul , thou hast said to 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 utter 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 →