NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 8

Luke 17:8

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Wouldn’t he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

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Luke 17:5–11

5

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

6

The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

7

But who is there among you, having a servant plowing or keeping sheep, that will say when he comes in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down at the table’?

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Wouldn’t he rather tell him, ‘Prepare my supper, clothe yourself properly, and serve me while I eat and drink. Afterward you shall eat and drink’?

9

Does he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded? I think not.

10

Even so you also, when you have done all the things that are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy servants. We have done our duty.’”

11

As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

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