21 Bible Verses about Heavy Burdens

Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

And Moses said to the Lord, Why have you done me this evil? and why have I not grace in your eyes, that you have put on me the care of all this people?

At that time I said to you, I am not able to undertake the care of you by myself;

How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

David said to him, If you go on with me, you will be a trouble to me:

But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.

For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,