Luke 17:1–10

¹And he said to his disciples, It cannot be but that offences come, but woe to him by whom they come! ²It would be more profitable for him if a millstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea, than that he should be a snare to one of these little ones. ³Take heed to yourselves: if thy brother should sin, rebuke him; and if he should repent, forgive him. ⁴And if he should sin against thee seven times in the day, and seven times should return to thee, saying, I repent, thou shalt forgive him. ⁵And the apostles said to the Lord, Give more faith to us. ⁶But the Lord said, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye had said to this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you. ⁷But which of you is there who, having a bondman ploughing or shepherding, when he comes in out of the field, will say, Come and lie down immediately to table? ⁸But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that thou shalt eat and drink? ⁹Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not. ¹⁰Thus ye also, when ye shall have done all things that have been ordered you, say, We are unprofitable bondmen; we have done what it was our duty to do.