But how can I alone bear up under the burden of your hardship and strife?

For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”

For it seemed best to the Holy Spirit and to us ¹  not to place any greater burden on you than these necessary rules: ² 

David said to him, “If you leave ¹  with me you will be a burden to me.

It said: ¹  “I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket. ² 

Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

This is the service of the families of Gershonites, as they serve ¹  and carry it.

For my sins overwhelm me; ¹  like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.

Together they bend low and kneel down; they are unable to rescue the images; ¹  they themselves ²  head off into captivity. ³ 

But Jesus ¹  replied, ²  “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! ³  You load people ⁴  down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch ⁵  the burdens with even one of your fingers!

When ¹  I was with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia fully supplied my needs. ²  I ³  kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and will continue to do so.

You led us into a trap; ¹  you caused us to suffer. ² 

In the year King Ahaz died, ¹  this message was revealed: ² 

The Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, ¹  when one of these people, or a prophet, or a priest asks you, ‘What burdensome message ²  do you have from the Lord?’ Tell them, ‘You are the burden, ³  and I will cast you away. ⁴  I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁵ 

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.

The following is the message ¹  which God revealed to Habakkuk the prophet: ² 

What follows is divine revelation. ¹  The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi: ² 

If ¹  I have sinned – what have I done to you, ²  O watcher of men? ³  Why have you set me as your target? ⁴  Have I become a burden to you? ⁵ 

Throw your burden ¹  upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. ²  He will never allow the godly to be upended. ³ 

But be that as it may, I have not burdened you. Yet because I was a crafty person, I took you in by deceit!