Luke 17:10

Amplified Bible

So you too, when you have done everything that was assigned and commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants [undeserving of praise or a reward, for we have not gone beyond our obligation]; we have merely done what we ought to do.’ ”

Cross References

Isaiah 6:5

Then I said, “Woe is me! For I am ruined, Because I am a man of [ceremonially] unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”

Isaiah 64:6

For we all have become like one who is [ceremonially] unclean [like a leper], And all our deeds of righteousness are like filthy rags; We all wither and decay like a leaf, And our wickedness [our sin, our injustice, our wrongdoing], like the wind, takes us away [carrying us far from God’s favor, toward destruction]. [Lev 13:45, 46]

Jeremiah 32:23

They entered and took possession of it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law; they have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do. Therefore You have caused all this disaster and suffering to come upon them.

Matthew 25:30

And throw out the worthless servant into the outer darkness; in that place [of grief and torment] there will be weeping [over sorrow and pain] and grinding of teeth [over distress and anger].

Luke 17:11

While Jesus was on the way to Jerusalem, He was passing [along the border] between Samaria and Galilee.

Luke 17:9

He does not thank the servant just because he did what he was ordered to do, does he?

Romans 11:35

Or who has first given to Him that it would be paid back to him?

Romans 3:12

“All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, no, not one.” [Ps 53:1-3]

Philemon 1:11

Once he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you as well as to me.