Category:Servant's Reward Parable

Luke 17:7 - 17:10

17:7. “But which of you, having a servant ploughing or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he has come from the field, 'Go immediately; sit down to eat,'

17:8. “and will not rather say to him, 'Make my supper ready and gird yourself and serve me while I eat and drink, and afterwards you will eat and drink'?

17:9. “Does he thank that servant for doing the things which he commanded him?

'''17:10. “I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say, 'We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.'”'''

Unprofitable servants.. .Because our service is of no profit to our master; and he justly claims it as our bounden duty. But though we are unprofitable to him, our serving him is not unprofitable to us; for he is pleased to give by his grace a value to our good works, which, in consequence of his promise, entitles them to an eternal reward.