22 Bible Verses about Heavy Burdens

Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

If you see the ass of him who hates you lying under his burden, and would hold back from helping him, you shall surely help him.

And now my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, and I will add to your yoke. My father has whipped you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

and spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke. My father whipped you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.

And He said, Woe to you also, lawyers! For you load men with burdens grievous to be carried, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart full of sheaves is pressed.

And Moses said to Jehovah, Why have You afflicted Your servant? And why have I not found favor in Your sight, so that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear you by myself.

How can I by myself bear your pressure and your burden and your strife?

David said to him, If you pass on with me, then you shall be a burden to me.

But the former governors that had been before me were too heavy upon the people, and had taken bread and wine from them, besides forty shekels of silver. Yes, even their servants bore rule over the people. But I did not do this, because of the fear of God.

A stone is heavy, and sand is heavy; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Heaviness in the heart of man makes it stoop, but a good word makes it glad.

For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden they are too heavy for me.

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand; they intertwine; they rise on my neck. He has made my strength to falter; Jehovah has delivered me into their hands. I am not able to rise up.

saying, These last have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and heat of the day.

For, brothers, we would not have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength; so much so that we despaired even of life.

For each one will bear his own load.

And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts are weighed down with headaches and drinking and anxieties of this life; and that day should suddenly come on you;

For of these are those who creep into houses and lead captive silly women loaded with sins, led away with different kinds of lusts,