39 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He took them out of the dark and the black night, and all their chains were broken.

And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.

Let their chains be broken, and their cords taken from off us.

The doors of brass are broken by his arm, and the bands of iron are cut in two.

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

And suddenly there was an earth-shock, so that the base of the prison was moved: and all the doors came open, and everyone's chains came off.

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

For it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that his yoke will be broken off his neck, and his bands will be burst; and men of strange lands will no longer make use of him as their servant:

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.

I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

The opener of the way will go up before them: forcing their way out they will go on to the doorway and out through it: their king will go on before them, and the Lord at their head.

Make yourself clean from the dust; up! and take the seat of your power, O Jerusalem: the bands of your neck are loose, O prisoned daughter of Zion.

Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

Those who are without friends, God puts in families; he makes free those who are in chains; but those who are turned away from him are given a dry land.

He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain;

For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

For he gave an order to the evil spirit to come out of the man. For frequently it would take a grip of him: and he was kept under control, and prisoned with chains; but parting the chains in two, he would be sent by the driving of the evil spirit into waste places.

And the tree of the field will give its fruit and the earth will give its increase, and they will be safe in their land; and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I have had their yoke broken and have given them salvation from the hands of those who made them servants.

And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the great deep and a great chain in his hand.

Then Paul said, What are you doing, weeping and wounding my heart? for I am ready, not only to be a prisoner, but to be put to death at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

And a great light was seen shining in the room, and an angel of the Lord came to Peter and, touching him on his side so that he came out of his sleep, said, Get up quickly. And his chains came off his hands.

I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and it was broken by his hands.

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

Go and say to Hananiah, This is what the Lord has said: Yokes of wood have been broken by you, but in their place I will make yokes of iron.

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.

But in the night an angel of the Lord, opening the doors of the prison, took them out and said,

So Peter was kept in prison: but the church made strong prayer to God for him.