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Bible Verses About Burden
Find Bible verses about burden — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about burden?
The Bible addresses burden with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Matthew 11:30
“For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."”
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
“I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.”
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Jeremiah 23:33
“When this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask you, saying, What is the burden of Yahweh? Then you shall tell them, What burden! I will cast you off, says Yahweh.”
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Psalms 55:22
“Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.”
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Acts 15:10
“Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?”
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Galatians 6:5
“For each man will bear his own burden.”
Proverbs 27:3
“A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.”
Isaiah 10:27
“It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing oil.”
Acts 15:28
“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay no greater burden on you than these necessary things:”
1 John 5:3
“For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.”
Matthew 20:12
“saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!'”
2 Corinthians 11:28
“Besides those things that are outside, there is that which presses on me daily, anxiety for all the assemblies.”
Exodus 23:5
“If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.”
Psalms 81:6
“"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.”
Romans 10:1
“Brothers, my heart's desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.”
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Zephaniah 3:18 — “I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach...”
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