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 darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.
Romans 3:12
all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;
Romans 11:35
or who first gave to him, and it shall be repaid him?
1 Corinthians 9:16
For if I preach the gospel I have nothing to boast of; for a necessity is laid upon me; for woe is me, if I preach not the gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, and am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God;
Philippians 3:8
But for the same reason also I consider all things to be a loss on account of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and consider them worthless that I may gain Christ
Philemon 1:11
who was formerly not useful to you but is now most useful to you and me,
1 Peter 5:5
Let the younger in like manner be subject to the elder, and do you all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility; for God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.