Luke 17:7-10
The Unprofitable Servants
Luke 17 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Luke 17:7-10 in the NABRE onlineBut which of you having a servant ploughing, or feeding cattle, will say to him, when he is come from the field: Immediately go, sit down to meat: And will not rather say to him: Make ready my supper, and gird thyself, and serve me, whilst I eat and drink, and afterwards thou shalt eat and drink? Doth he thank that servant, for doing the things which he commanded him?
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.
Reflection
We have done what it was our duty to do. Service is not a ledger God owes you against.