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luke 17:10 "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.'"
10. unprofitable--a word which, though usually denoting the
opposite of profit, is here used simply in its negative sense.
"We have not, as his servants, profited or benefited God at all."
(Compare
Job 22:2, 3;
Ro 11:35.)