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50 Bible Verses About Burden

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    The Bible teaches that burdens are part of life, but they also bring growth. Carrying your burdens with faith builds resilience and character. God provides strength when you feel overwhelmed. Sharing your burdens with others lightens the load and deepens connections. Through burdens, you learn to rely on God’s wisdom. Each challenge is an opportunity to grow closer to Him. Trust that every burden has a purpose.

    Below is our full list of bible verses on burden (King James Version – KJV) provided in ranked order.

    Most Popular Bible Verses About Burden

    Matthew 11:28-30

    28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

    Related Themes: Frustration Rest Depression Hope Rest

    Psalm 55:22

    22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.”

    Related Themes: Frustration Nervousness Stress Sadness Anxiety

    Galatians 6:2

    2 Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”

    Related Themes: Suffering Strangers Community Justice Homelessness

    1 Corinthians 10:13

    13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

    Related Themes: Lust Self-Control Addiction Strength Temptation

    1 Peter 5:6-7

    6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”

    Related Themes: Humility Frustration Anxiety Nervousness Love

    John 16:33

    33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

    Related Themes: Frustration Suffering Peace Homelessness Bitterness

    Acts 20:35

    35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.”

    Related Themes: Money Serving Others Charity Generosity Finances

    Hebrews 12:1

    1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

    Related Themes: Perseverance Patience Bitterness Perseverance Quitting

    1 Peter 3:18

    18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:”

    Related Themes: Suffering Dominion Victory

    Jeremiah 23:36

    36 And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the LORD of hosts our God.”

    Related Themes: Omnipotence

    Psalm 145:14

    14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.”

    Related Themes: Restoration Failure

    Acts 2:38

    38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

    Related Themes: Repentance Holy Spirit Baptism Forgiveness Omnipotence

    John 7:17

    17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”

    Related Themes: Doubt Determination

    Galatians 6:5

    5 For every man shall bear his own burden.”

    Related Themes: Responsibility Personal Responsibility Boundaries Enabling

    1 Thessalonians 2:9

    9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.”

    Related Themes: Idleness Labor

    Colossians 2:8

    8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

    Related Themes: Education Greatness Discernment Learning Wisdom

    Philippians 4:13

    13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

    Related Themes: Strength Omnipotence Self Confidence Life Greatness

    Psalm 68:19

    19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”

    Related Themes: Suffering Thankfulness Abundance Favor

    Matthew 11:28

    28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

    Related Themes: Frustration Rest Depression Hope Rest

    Revelation 21:8

    8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.”

    Related Themes: Hell Abomination Telling The Truth Frustration Adultery

    Luke 11:46

    46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.”

    John 3:16

    16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

    Related Themes: Trespassing Life Love Money Omnipotence

    Matthew 23:4

    4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.”

    Related Themes: Freedom

    Isaiah 58:6

    6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?”

    Related Themes: Homelessness Fasting Homelessness Freedom Fasting

    1 John 1:1

    1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;”

    Related Themes: Telling The Truth Lust Testimony Lust Preaching

    Deuteronomy 1:12

    12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?”

    Related Themes: Strife

    Exodus 1:11

    11 Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.”

    Psalm 38:4

    4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.”

    2 Corinthians 11:9

    9 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.”

    Revelation 11:7

    7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.”

    Related Themes: Equality

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