41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart."

"Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us."

For he shatters the doors of bronze and cuts in two the bars of iron.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

"And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and I will burst your bonds, and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.

And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat."

I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God." But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

He who opens the breach goes up before them; they break through and pass the gate, going out by it. Their king passes on before them, the LORD at their head.

Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

"Forge a chain!For the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence.

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain,

"For long ago I broke your yoke and burst your bonds; but you said, 'I will not serve.' Yes, on every high hill and under every green tree you bowed down like a whore.

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)

And the trees of the field shall yield their fruit, and the earth shall yield its increase, and they shall be secure in their land. And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I break the bars of their yoke, and deliver them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain.

Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus."

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we have escaped!

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.

"I will go before you and level the exalted places, I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut through the bars of iron,

the headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets;

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke-bars from the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke them.

The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

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

to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit usfrom on high

before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

"Go, tell Hananiah, 'Thus says the LORD: You have broken wooden bars, but you have made in their place bars of iron.

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.