41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

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

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

Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

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 bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

For it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will break his yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy 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 judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.

The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them.

Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy 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 setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which 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 of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her 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 that served themselves of 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 ye to weep and to break mine 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 smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:

The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

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

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

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

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

The LORD is righteous: he hath 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 as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath 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; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.

Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt 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.