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16 Bible Verses About Burdens

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  • Psalm 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7 both tell the reader to cast a load on God, and in 1 Peter the command belongs to a sentence about humbling oneself under God’s hand.
  • Isaiah 46 sets idols that must be carried “as burdens on weary beasts” beside the God who carries his people from birth to old age.
  • Matthew uses the same noun, phortion, for the heavy burdens the scribes and Pharisees lay on others (23:4) and for the light burden of Jesus (11:30).
  • Galatians 6 uses baros for the burdens Christians bear for one another (verse 2) and phortion for the load each bears himself (verse 5).
  • Moses told God the burden of the people was too heavy to carry alone, and God gave seventy elders to share it (Numbers 11:14-17).

The Bible names several kinds of burden, among them trouble, guilt, religious rules and the care of other people. Psalm 55:22 and 1 Peter 5:7 tell the reader to cast the load on God, Matthew 11:28-30 offers the light burden of Jesus, and Galatians 6:2-5 asks a church to share burdens while each bears his own load. Galatians 6:2 and 2 Corinthians 4:17 use the Greek noun baros, weight: the burdens Christians bear for each other and the “weight of…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 3053, יְהָב (yehab): burden, lot. biblehub.com/hebrew/3053

Strong’s Hebrew 6006, עָמַס (amas): to load, carry a load; rendered “bears our burden” in the NASB of Psalm 68:19. biblehub.com/hebrew/6006

Strong’s Greek 922, βάρος (baros): weight, burden; with Thayer’s Greek Lexicon on Galatians 6:2 and 2 Corinthians 4:17. biblehub.com/greek/922

Strong’s Greek 5413, φορτίον (phortion): a burden, load; with HELPS Word-studies and Thayer’s Greek Lexicon on Matthew 11:30, Matthew 23:4 and Galatians 6:5. biblehub.com/greek/5413

Strong’s Greek 926, βαρύς (barys): heavy, burdensome; used in Matthew 23:4 and 1 John 5:3. biblehub.com/greek/926

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