Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Which in time past was to thee unprofitable, but now profitable to thee and to me:

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Bible References

Unprofitable

Matthew 25:30
and cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.
Luke 17:10
So also you, when you have done all things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; what we owed the doing of; we have done.
Romans 3:12
all have turned aside, they have together become unprofitable; there is no one that does good, there is not even one;
1 Peter 2:10
who formerly were not a people, but now are a people of God, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

Profitable

Luke 15:24
for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to rejoice.
2 Timothy 4:11
Luke only is with me. Take Mark and bring him with you; for [he will be] useful to me for service.

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Luke 17:10
So also you, when you have done all things commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; what we owed the doing of; we have done.