Luke 17

Which worship songs are based on Luke 17?

  1. How Long — Jon Guerra (2023) Luke 17:5

    The bridge directly adapts the apostles' request that the Lord enlarge their faith, changing the communal request into a personal prayer.

  2. Faith That Conquers — Kelly Price (2021) Luke 17:6

    The image of faith uprooting entrenched problems recalls Jesus’ teaching that even mustard-seed faith can command a deeply rooted tree to be uprooted.

  3. Boulevard of Both Extremes — ApologetiX (2010) Luke 17:11-19

    The song retells Jesus’ healing of ten lepers near Samaria and Galilee: they appeal for mercy, receive instructions to visit the priests, and are cleansed on their way. Its Samaritan narrator alone returns to thank Jesus, reproducing the passage’s central contrast between the grateful outsider and the other nine.

  4. Better - Live — Tye Tribbett (2013) Luke 17:12-14

    The explicit comparison to lepers, paired with continued movement before healing is complete, recalls the ten lepers who obeyed Jesus’ instruction to visit the priests and were cleansed as they went.

  5. Wounds — 11th Hour (2014) Luke 17:12-19

    The opening retells Jesus’ encounter with ten lepers who appeal to him from a distance, are sent onward, and are healed, with only one returning to give thanks. The singer explicitly identifies with these lepers and adopts the returning man’s grateful response.

  6. Jesus, Friend of Sinners — Casting Crowns (2011) Luke 17:15-16

    The speaker identifies with a healed leper expressing gratitude at Jesus' feet, specifically recalling the one man who returned to thank Jesus after the healing of ten lepers.

  7. casting light through such thin shades — A Hope for Home (2007) Luke 17:19

    The command to stand followed by Jesus’ declaration of healing through faith closely reproduces his words to the healed Samaritan. Similar declarations occur elsewhere in the Gospels, but the instruction to rise particularly supports this passage.

  8. Breathe — Sixpence None the Richer (2009) Luke 17:21

    The song locates God's kingdom within the singer, closely echoing the traditional translation of Jesus' teaching about the kingdom's location. Many modern translations understand that passage as referring to the kingdom's presence among Jesus' hearers rather than inside each person.

  9. Keys to the Kingdom — Group 1 Crew (2008) Luke 17:21

    The first verse locates God’s kingdom within believers, closely adapting translations that render Jesus’ statement as an inward presence. Other translations describe the kingdom as being among his hearers.

  10. Kingdom — Allie Paige (2025) Luke 17:21

    The song's assertion that 'Your kingdom is within me' echoes the teaching of Jesus that the kingdom of God is not a physical place but a spiritual reality present within believers.

  11. All the Pretty Things — Tenth Avenue North (2010) Luke 17:33

    The first verse adapts Jesus’ paradox that whoever seeks to preserve their life will lose it, while whoever loses it will keep it. The song applies this reversal to relinquishing the things that compete for devotion to God.

Luke 17 (King James Version)

1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!

2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

5 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

6 And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

7 But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?

8 And will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

9 Doth he thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him? I trow not.

10 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.

11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

12 And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers, which stood afar off:

13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

14 And when he saw them, he said unto them, Go shew yourselves unto the priests. And it came to pass, that, as they went, they were cleansed.

15 And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan.

17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

18 There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

19 And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:

21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see it.

23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.

32 Remember Lot’s wife.

33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.