So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants. The word 'unprofitable' х achreioi (G888)], though in modern English denoting the opposite of profit, is here used in its proper negative sense, 'We have not profited' or 'benefited God at all by our services.' The connection of this with the subject discoursed of may be thus expressed-`But when your faith has been so increased as both to avoid and forgive offences, and do things impossible to all but faith-even then, be not puffed up as though you had laid the Lord under any obligations to you.' (Compare Job 22:2-3; Romans 11:35)