New Revised Standard Version
So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!’”

Contemporary English Version
And that's how it should be with you. When you've done all you should, then say, "We are merely servants, and we have simply done our duty."

New American Bible
So should it be with you. When you have done all you have been commanded, say, ‘We are unprofitable servants; we have done what we were obliged to do.’ ”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

I think not. So you also, when you shall have done all these things that are commanded you, say: We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which we ought to do.

1 Chronicles 29:14-16 Who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to promise thee all these things? all things are thine: and we have given thee what we received of thy hand. . . .

Job 22:2,3 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge? . . .

Job 35:6,7 If thou sin, what shalt thou hurt him? and if thy iniquities be multiplied, what shalt thou do against him? . . .

Psalm 16:2,3 I have said to the Lord, thou art my God, for thou hast no need of my goods. . . .

Psalm 35:6,7 Let their way become dark and slippery; and let the angel of the Lord pursue them. . . .

Proverbs 16:2,3 All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of spirits. . . .

Isaiah 6:5 And I said: Woe is me, because I have held my peace; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people that hath unclean lips, and I have seen with my eyes the King the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Matthew 25:30,37-40 And the unprofitable servant, cast ye out into the exterior darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. . . .

Romans 3:12 All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

Romans 11:35 Or who hath first given to him, and recompense shall be made him?

1 Corinthians 9:16,17 For if I preach the gospel, it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me. For woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:9,10 For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. . . .

Philippians 3:8,9 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ. . . .

Philemon 1:11 Who hath been heretofore unprofitable to thee but now is profitable both to me and thee:

1 Peter 5:5,6 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace. . . .