'Pressure' in the Bible
How can I alone bear the weight and pressure and burden of you and your strife (contention) and complaining?
“When He gave weight and pressure to the windAnd allotted the waters by measure,
“Behold, I will not make you afraid or terrified of me [for I am only mortal and not God],Nor should any pressure from me weigh heavily upon you.
But small is the gate and narrow and difficult to travel is the path that leads the way to [everlasting] life, and there are few who find it.
And not only this, but [with joy] let us exult in our sufferings and rejoice in our hardships, knowing that hardship (distress, pressure, trouble) produces patient endurance;
Besides those external things, there is the daily [inescapable] pressure of my concern for all the churches.
but I did not want to do anything without first getting your consent, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.