Matthew 23:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

Cross References

Isaiah 46:1

Bel bows down; Nebo stoops; their idols are on beasts and cattle; these things you carry are loaded as burdens on weary animals.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

Matthew 23:3

therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it, but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

Luke 11:46

And he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not lift a finger to ease them.

Acts 15:10

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Acts 15:28

For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to impose on you no further burden than these essentials:

Galatians 6:13

Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

1 John 5:3

For the love of God is this, that we obey his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome,

Revelation 2:24

But to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not learned what some call ‘the deep things of Satan,’ to you I say, I do not lay on you any other burden;