Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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.
Bible References
General references
Matthew 25:30
And cast the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Romans 3:12
All are turned aside together, they are become worthless; there is none that doeth good, there is not even one.
Romans 11:35
Or who hath first given unto him, and it shall be repaid him again?
1 Corinthians 9:16
For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me, yea verily woe is to me if I preach not the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Philippians 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the transcendently excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but as offals of ordure, that I may gain Christ,
Philemon 1:11
who in time past hath been an unprofitable servant to thee, but now very profitable to thee and to me:
1 Peter 5:5
In like manner, ye who are younger persons, be in subjection to your elders: but all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed from head to foot with humility: for God sets himself in opposition to the proud, but he giveth grace to the lowly.