Luke 17:10

So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "`There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

9Does he thank the servant for obeying his orders?

11As they pursued their journey to Jerusalem, He passed through Samaria and Galilee.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:30`But as for this worthless servant, put him out into the darkness outside: *there* will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.'

Romans 3:12All have turned aside from the right path; they have every one of them become corrupt. There is no one who does what is right--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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