Luke 17:10
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’””
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“So you also, when you have done everything commanded of you, should say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have only done our duty.’””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“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.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say--We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do--we have done.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Luke 17:10 — 18 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Chronicles 29:14But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
- Job 22:2“Can a man be of use to God? Can even a wise man benefit Him?
- Job 35:6If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
- Psalms 16:2I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
- Psalms 35:6May their path be dark and slick, as the angel of the LORD pursues.
- Proverbs 16:2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
- Isaiah 6:5Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
- Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.
- Jeremiah 32:23They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.
- Matthew 25:30And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Matthew 25:37Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You something to drink?
- Romans 3:12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
- Romans 11:35“Who has first given to God, that God should repay him?”
- 1 Corinthians 9:16Yet when I preach the gospel, I have no reason to boast, because I am obligated to preach. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!
- 1 Corinthians 15:9For I am the least of the apostles and am unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
- Philippians 3:8More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
- Philemon 1:11Formerly he was useless to you, but now he has become useful both to you and to me.
- 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
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