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Do All Which Jesus Commands

17 Now He said to His disciples, (A)It is [a]inevitable that [b]stumbling blocks come, but woe to him through whom they come! (B)It [c]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. [d]Be on your guard! (C)If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. And if he sins against you (D)seven times a day, and returns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ [e]forgive him.”

(E)And the apostles said to (F)the Lord, “Increase our faith!” And (G)the Lord said, “If you have faith like (H)a mustard seed, you would say to this (I)mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would [f]obey you.

“But 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 [g]sit down to eat’? But will he not say to him, ‘(J)Prepare something for me to eat, and, [h]clothing yourself properly, serve me while I eat and drink; and [i]afterward you [j]may eat and drink’? Is he grateful to the slave because he did the things which were commanded? 10 In this way, you also, when you do all the things which are commanded of you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 17:1 Lit impossible that stumbling blocks not come
  2. Luke 17:1 Or temptations to sin
  3. Luke 17:2 Lit is
  4. Luke 17:3 Lit Take heed to yourselves
  5. Luke 17:4 Lit you shall forgive
  6. Luke 17:6 Lit have obeyed
  7. Luke 17:7 Lit recline
  8. Luke 17:8 Lit gird
  9. Luke 17:8 Lit after these things
  10. Luke 17:8 Lit will