Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'burden' occurs 78 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'burden' in the standard works and contain 20.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 23:33-38 (8 in 6 verses)

Num. 4:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 22:25-23:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 46:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 17:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 62 22 84
NT 7 10 17
Matt. 2 1 3
Luke 0 2 2
Acts 2 0 2
2 Cor. 1 5 6
Gal. 1 1 2
1 Thes. 0 1 1
Rev. 1 0 1
BM 8 13 21
DC 1 1 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 78 46 124

Matt. 11:30
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Matt. 20:12
Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Matt. 23:4
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.

Luke 11:46
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.

Acts 15:28
For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

Acts 21:3
Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre: for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

2 Cor. 5:4
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

2 Cor. 8:13
For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

2 Cor. 11:9
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.

2 Cor. 12:13
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.

2 Cor. 12:14
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

2 Cor. 12:16
But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless, being crafty, I caught you with guile.

Gal. 6:2
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

Gal. 6:5
For every man shall bear his own burden.

1 Thes. 2:6
Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

Rev. 2:24
But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.