41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains
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He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death
And broke their bands apart.
“So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you,
And I will tear off your shackles.”
There were those who dwelt in darkness and in the shadow of death,
Prisoners in misery and chains,
and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.
“Is this not the fast which I choose,
To loosen the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the bands of the yoke,
And to let the oppressed go free
And break every yoke?
‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves.
So it will be in that day, that his burden will be removed from your shoulders and his yoke from your neck, and the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
“I will go to the great
And will speak to them,
For they know the way of the Lord
And the ordinance of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to subdue him.
“The breaker goes up before them;
They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.
So their king goes on before them,
And the Lord at their head.”
Shake yourself from the dust, rise up,
O captive Jerusalem;
Loose yourself from the chains around your neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
‘Make the chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.
God makes a home for the lonely;
He leads out the prisoners into prosperity,
Only the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
and he had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a chain;
“For long ago I broke your yoke
And tore off your bonds;
But you said, ‘I will not serve!’
For on every high hill
And under every green tree
You have lain down as a harlot.
For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.
Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but even to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”
To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.
Our soul has escaped as a bird out of the snare of the trapper;
The snare is broken and we have escaped.
And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter’s side and woke him up, saying, “Get up quickly.” And his chains fell off his hands.
“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.
And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Because of the tender mercy of our God,
With which the Sunrise from on high will visit us,
Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;
“Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made instead of them yokes of iron.”
Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and gashing himself with stones.
For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles in one point, he has become guilty of all.
But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the gates of the prison, and taking them out he said,
So Peter was kept in the prison, but prayer for him was being made fervently by the church to God.
