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 out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there will be the weeping, and the gnashing of teeth!
Romans 3:12
they have all turned aside, they together became unprofitable; there is none that does good, there is not so much as one;
Romans 11:35
Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?
1 Corinthians 9:16
For, if I proclaim the Gospel, it is not to me a matter of boasting; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is to me, if I proclaim not the Gospel.
1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the assembly of God.
Philippians 3:8
Nay, more, I even account all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I suffered the loss of all things, and account them refuse, that I may gain Christ.
Philemon 1:11
who at one time was unprofitable to you, but now profitable to you and to me;
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, be subject to the elder; yea, all of you gird on the lowly mind to serve one another; because "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the lowly."