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Luke 17:5-12 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. And the apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

6. So the Lord said, “If you have faith like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

7. “And which of you who has a slave plowing or shepherding sheep who comes in from the field will say to him, ‘Come here at once and recline at the table’?

8. Will he not rather say to him, ‘Prepare something that I may eat, and dress yourself to serve me while I eat and drink, and after these things you will eat and drink.’

9. He will not be grateful to the slave because he did what was ordered, will he?

10. Thus you also, when you have done all the things you were ordered to do, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done what we were obligated to do.’ ”

11. And it happened that while traveling toward Jerusalem, he was passing through the region between Samaria and Galilee.

12. And as he was entering into a certain village, ten men met him—lepers, who stood at a distance.