Then I said, *Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
Luke 17:10 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.'* Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
Then I said, *Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Armies!*
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
and they came in, and possessed it, but they didn't obey your voice, neither walked in your Torah; they have done nothing of all that you commanded them to do: therefore you have caused all this evil to come on them.
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
It happened as he was on his way to Yerushalayim, that he was passing along the borders of Shomron and the Galil.
Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.
They have all turned aside. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not, so much as one.*