Luke 17:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Even so on your part, when you have done everything that was assigned and commanded you, say, We are unworthy servants [possessing no merit, for we have not gone beyond our obligation]; we have [merely] done what was our duty to do.

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ In the same way, when you have done everything required of you, you should say, ‘We servants deserve no special praise. We have only done our duty.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ I think not. So too, when you have done all these things that have been taught to you, you should say: 'We are useless servants. We have done what we should have done.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

Luke 17:10 Cross References

Isaiah 6:5

And I said, “Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”

Isaiah 64:6

We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Jeremiah 32:23

and they entered and took possession of it. But they did not obey your voice or follow your laws; of all you commanded them to do, they did nothing. Therefore you have made all these disasters come upon them.

Matthew 25:30

As for this worthless slave, throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Luke 17:11

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee.

Luke 17:9

Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded?

Romans 11:35

“Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?”

Romans 3:12

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; there is no one who shows kindness; there is not even one.”

Philemon 1:11

Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.