41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He brought them out of darkness, and out of the shadow of death, and broke their bonds in sunder.

And now will I break his rod from thy back, and burst thy bonds in sunder."

Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

For he hath broken the gates of brass, and smitten the bars of iron in sunder.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,

And suddenly, there was a great earthquake, so that the foundation of the prison was shaken, and by and by all the doors opened, and every man's bonds were loosed.

Or is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? To loose wicked bonds, and to unbind bundles of oppression? And to let the bruised go free? And that ye should break all manner yokes?

For in that day, sayeth the LORD, I will take his yoke from off thy neck, and break thy bonds. They shall no more serve strange gods under him,

Then shall his burden be taken from thy shoulders, and his yoke from thy neck, yea the same yoke shall be corrupt for very fatness."

Therefore will I go unto their heads and rulers, and talk with them: if they know the way of the LORD, and the judgments of our God." But these, in like manner, have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds in sunder.

because that when he was often bound with fetters and chains, he plucked the chains asunder, and brake the fetters in pieces: Neither could any man tame him.

Whoso breaketh the gap, he shall go before. They shall break up the port, and go in and out at it. Their king shall go before them, and the LORD shall be upon the head of them.

Shake thee from the dust, arise and stand up, O Jerusalem. Pluck out thy neck from the bond, O thou captive daughter Zion.

"I will make clean riddance, for the land is whole defiled with unrighteous judgment of innocent blood, and the city is full of abominations.

He is the God that maketh men to be of one mind in a house, and bringeth the prisoners out of captivity, but letteth the renegades continue in scarceness.

which had his abiding among the graves. And no man could bind him: no, not with chains,

"I have ever broken thy yoke of old, and bursten thy bonds: yet sayest thou, 'I will no more serve.' But like a harlot thou runnest about upon all high hills,

Then he commanded the foul spirit to come out of the man. For often times he caught him, and he was bound with chains, and kept with fetters: and he brake the bonds, and was carried of the fiend into wilderness.

that the trees in the wood may bring forth their fruits, and the ground her increase. They shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD: which have broken their yoke, and delivered them out of the hands of those that held them in subjection.

And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand.

Then Paul answered, and said, "What do ye weeping, and breaking mine heart? I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

That thou mayest open the eyes of the blind; let out the prisoners, and them that sit in darkness, out of the dungeon house.

Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.

And behold, the angel of the Lord was there present, and a light shined in the lodge. And he smote Peter on the side, and stirred him up, saying, "Arise up quickly." And his chains fell off from his hands.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

the goodly flowered wide and broidered raiment, brushes and headbands,

For I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of the Egyptians, that ye should not be their bondmen, and I broke the bows of your yokes, and made you go upright.

and loosed the sorrows of death, because it was impossible that he should be holden of it.

And this is the cause that they be so puffed up in pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty and unrighteousness.

And Hananiah the prophet took the chain from the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it;

But the righteous LORD hath hewn the snares of the ungodly in pieces.

And I found, that a woman is bitterer than death: for she is a very angle, her heart is a net, and her hands are chains. Who so pleaseth God shall escape from her, but the sinner will be taken with her.

For the law of the spirit, that bringeth life through Jesus Christ, hath delivered me from the law of sin, and death:

to bind their kings in chains, and their nobles with links of iron,

Through the tender mercy of our God, whereby the day spring from on high hath visited us:

Before the silver lace be taken away, and or the golden band be broken; or the pot be broken at the well, and the wheel upon the cistern;

"Go, and tell Hananiah these words, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Thou hast broken the chain of wood, but instead of wood thou shalt make chains of iron.

And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones.

Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet fail in one point, he is guilty in all.

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth, and said,

Then was Peter kept in prison. But prayer was made without ceasing of the congregation unto God for him.