Luke 17:1-10

Instructions

1 He said to His disciples, "¹It is inevitable * that stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come!

2 "²It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea, than that he would cause one of these little ones to stumble.

3 "Be on your guard! ³If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

4 "And if he sins against you ⁴seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, 'I repent,' forgive him."

5 ⁵The apostles said to ⁶the Lord, "Increase our faith!"

6 And ⁷the Lord said, "If you had faith like ⁸a mustard seed, you would say to this ⁹mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and be planted in the sea '; and it would obey you.

7 "Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, 'Come immediately and sit down to eat'?

8 "But will he not say to him, '¹⁰Prepare something for me to eat, and properly clothe yourself and serve me while I eat and drink; and afterward * you may eat and drink '?

9 "He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?

10 "So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, 'We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.' "

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 18:7; 1 Corinthians 11:19; 1 Timothy 4:1
• 2. Matthew 18:6; Mark 9:42; 1 Corinthians 8:12
• 3. Matthew 18:15
• 4. Matthew 18:21
• 5. Mark 6:30
• 6. Luke 7:13
• 7. Luke 7:13
• 8. Matthew 13:31; Matthew 17:20; Mark 4:31; Luke 13:19
• 9. Luke 19:4
• 10. Luke 12:37

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "temptations to sin"
• [b]. Lit "is"
• [c]. Lit "Take heed to yourselves"
• [d]. Lit "you shall forgive"
• [e]. Lit "have"
• [f]. Lit "have obeyed"
• [g]. Lit "recline"
• [h]. Lit "gird"
• [i]. Lit "after these things"
• [j]. Lit "will"