Luke 17:10

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Summary

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.

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"But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you.

"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against him? And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?

I say to the LORD, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you."

Let their way be dark and slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!

All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit.

And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for 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 hosts!"

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

And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one."

"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"

For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel!

For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ

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

Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."