22 occurrences in 11 translations

'Burdensome' in the Bible

I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.

Verse ConceptsLonelinessNot AloneNot Being Alone

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome to thee. And he urged him, but he would not go; and he blessed him.

I removed the burden from your shoulder; your hands were freed of the burdensome basket.

Verse ConceptsBaskets, Uses OfRemoving BurdensRemoving People From Your Lifepot

I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunTragedyexploring

A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is futile and a burdensome task!

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Lack OfAffluenceDiscontentPhysical LabourBeing UnsatisfiedUseless EndeavourToiling In VainFamily And Friends

Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.

Verse ConceptsUnder The SunLife StrugglesSunFinding LoveGetting Through Hard TimesBeing Happy And Enjoying LifeEnjoying LifespousehardworkThe Love Of Women

For You have shattered their oppressive yokeand the rod on their shoulders,the staff of their oppressor,just as You did on the day of Midian.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toCivil LibertyYokesRemoving BurdensGod Freeing Captives

"Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low. Their idols are on beasts, on livestock. Your loads are more burdensome than their reports.

Verse ConceptsBabylon, History OfFalse GodsCarrying IdolsCrouching

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

Verse ConceptsYokesHow To FastPeople Releasing OthersInjusticeFastingFasting And PrayerBreaking Chainsliberation

Then you will call out, and the Lord will respond; you will cry out, and he will reply, 'Here I am.' You must remove the burdensome yoke from among you and stop pointing fingers and speaking sinfully.

Verse ConceptsFingersCalling upon GodAnswered PromisesGod Will AnswerBehold Me!rumors

The Lord said to me, "Jeremiah, when one of these people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, 'What burdensome message do you have from the Lord?' Tell them, 'You are the burden, and I will cast you away. I, the Lord, affirm it!

I will punish any prophet, priest, or other person who says "The Lord's message is burdensome." I will punish both that person and his whole family.'"

Verse ConceptsClaimsFake Friends

You must no longer say that the Lord's message is burdensome. For what is 'burdensome' really pertains to what a person himself says. You are misrepresenting the words of our God, the living God, the Lord who rules over all.

Verse ConceptsGod, Living And Self sustaining

But just suppose you continue to say, 'The message of the Lord is burdensome.' Here is what the Lord says will happen: 'I sent word to you that you must not say, "The Lord's message is burdensome." But you used the words "The Lord's message is burdensome" anyway.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.

Verse ConceptsRocksGathering Other NationsAll NationsThings Lifted Uplungsjerusalem

And when I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofFellowship, In Christian ServiceLackMissionary WorkPeople ProvidingShortages

For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

Verse ConceptsPaul, Apostle To GentilesForgive One AnotherForgiving YourselfForgiving Others Who Hurt YouParents Being Wrong

Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

Verse ConceptsApostles, Authority In ChurchCommendationAttention SeekersMinisters, Should BeMen PleasersSeeking Honourdignity

Bible Theasaurus

Burdensome (22 instances)
Oppressive (29 instances)
Ruinous (7 instances)
Taxing (7 instances)
Weighty (10 instances)

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