Unprofitable (αχρειο). The Syriac Sinaitic omits "unprofitable." The word is common in Greek literature, but in the N.T. only here…

Are unprofitable servants. We have conferred no favor. We have merited nothing. We have not benefited God or laid him under o…

Say, We are unprofitable servants. There is something very suggestive in the use of the same word that we encounter in th…

So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which …

Theophylact of Ohrid: Because faith makes its possessor a keeper of God’s commandments and adorns him with wonderful works,…

Luke here presents Jesus’ teaching about the ideal of servanthood. The world’s idea of success is to lord it over others; Jesus’ way is the reverse…

We have done what we were bound to do. That is, “we have brought nothing of our own, but have only done what we were bound by the law to d…

So likewise you
This is the accommodation and application of the parable to the disciples of Christ, who whether ministers or …

It is no reduction of the guilt of those by whom an offense comes, nor will the fact that offenses will come lessen their punishment.