Luke 17:10
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10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are (A)unworthy servants;[a] we have only done what was our duty.’”
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- Luke 17:10 Or bondservants
1 Corinthians 9:16-17
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16 For if I preach the gospel, that gives me no ground for boasting. For (A)necessity is laid upon me. Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel! 17 For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with (B)a stewardship.
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Job 22:2-3
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2 (A)“Can a man be profitable to God?
Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.
3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right,
or is it gain to him if you (B)make your ways blameless?
1 Peter 5:5-6
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5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. (A)Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for (B)“God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
6 (C)Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
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1 Corinthians 15:9-10
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9 For (A)I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because (B)I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, (C)I worked harder than any of them, (D)though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
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Job 35:6-7
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6 If you have sinned, (A)what do you accomplish against him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do to him?
7 (B)If you are righteous, what do you give to him?
Or what does he receive from your hand?
Romans 11:35
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35 “Or (A)who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid?”
Isaiah 64:6
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6 (A)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(B)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
Proverbs 16:2-3
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2 (A)All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
but the Lord (B)weighs the spirit.[a]
3 (C)Commit your work to the Lord,
and your plans will be established.
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- Proverbs 16:2 Or spirits
Romans 3:12
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12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
1 Chronicles 29:14-16
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14 “But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. 15 (A)For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are (B)like a shadow, and there is no abiding.[a] 16 O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own.
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- 1 Chronicles 29:15 Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew hope, or prospect
Philippians 3:8-9
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8 Indeed, I count everything as loss because of (A)the surpassing worth of (B)knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I (C)have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in him, not having (D)a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but (E)that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
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Matthew 25:37-40
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37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And (A)the King will answer them, (B)‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these (C)my brothers,[a] you did it to me.’
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- Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters
Psalm 16:2-3
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2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
(A)I have no good apart from you.”
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- Psalm 16:3 Or To the saints in the land, the excellent in whom is all my delight, I say:
Matthew 25:30
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30 And (A)cast (B)the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place (C)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
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Isaiah 6:5
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5 And I said: “Woe is me! (A)For I am lost; (B)for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the (C)King, the Lord of hosts!”
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Psalm 35:6-7
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6 Let their way be dark and (A)slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them!
7 For (B)without cause (C)they hid their net for me;
without cause they dug (D)a pit for my life.[a]
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- Psalm 35:7 The word pit is transposed from the preceding line; Hebrew For without cause they hid the pit of their net for me; without cause they dug for my life
Philemon 11
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11 (Formerly he was useless to you, but now he is indeed useful to you and to me.)
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