41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands asunder.

For now will I break his yoke from off you, and will burst your bonds asunder.

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

For he has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two.

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound 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 every one's bands were loosed.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

For it shall come to pass in that day, says the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds, and strangers shall no more enslave them:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the law of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been wrenched apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man subdue him.

He who breaks open has come up before them: they have broken out, and have passed through the gate, and have gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, the LORD at their head.

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

Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

God sets the solitary in families: he brings out those who are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For often it had seized him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he broke the bonds, and was 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 safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those who enslaved them.

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, What mean you to weep and to break my heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.

To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he struck Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

I will go before you, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze, and cut asunder the bars of iron:

The headdresses, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the perfume boxes, and the charms,

I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you walk upright.

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and broke it.

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

And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are fetters: whosoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall 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 bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

Through the tender mercy of our God; by which the dawn from on high has visited us,

Before the silver cord is loosed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus says the LORD; You have broken the yokes of wood; but you shall make for them yokes of iron.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

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

Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.