'Burden' in the Bible
‘These last men put in one hour, and you made them equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the burning heat!’
Tell Daughter Zion,“Look, your King is coming to you,gentle, and mounted on a donkey,even on a colt,the foal of a beast of burden.”
For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision—and ours—to put no greater burden on you than these necessary things:
However, so that I will not burden you any further, I beg you in your graciousness to give us a brief hearing.
When I was present with you and in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my needs. I have kept myself, and will keep myself, from burdening you in any way.
So in what way were you treated worse than the other churches, except that I personally did not burden you? Forgive me this wrong!
Now I am ready to come to you this third time. I will not burden you, for I am not seeking what is yours, but you. For children are not obligated to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.
Although we could have been a burden as Christ’s apostles, instead we were gentle among you, as a nursing mother nurtures her own children.
For you remember our labor and hardship, brothers. Working night and day so that we would not burden any of you, we preached God’s gospel to you.
we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.
For this is what love for God is: to keep His commands. Now His commands are not a burden,
I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known the deep things of Satan—as they say—I do not put any other burden on you.