41 Bible Verses about Breaking Chains

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

And now, I will break Assyria's yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you."

They say, "Let's tear off the shackles they've put on us! Let's free ourselves from their ropes!"

For he shattered the bronze gates, and hacked through the iron bars.

They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains,

Suddenly a great earthquake occurred, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. Immediately all the doors flew open, and the bonds of all the prisoners came loose.

No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.

When the time for them to be rescued comes," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will rescue you from foreign subjugation. I will deliver you from captivity. Foreigners will then no longer subjugate them.

At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the Lord demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them." Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.

For his hands and feet had often been bound with chains and shackles, but he had torn the chains apart and broken the shackles in pieces. No one was strong enough to subdue him.

The one who can break through barriers will lead them out they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave. Their king will advance before them, The Lord himself will lead them.

Shake off the dirt! Get up, captive Jerusalem! Take off the iron chains around your neck, O captive daughter Zion!

(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder and the city is full of violence.)

God settles those who have been deserted in their own homes; he frees prisoners and grants them prosperity. But sinful rebels live in the desert.

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

"Indeed, long ago you threw off my authority and refused to be subject to me. You said, 'I will not serve you.' Instead, you gave yourself to other gods on every high hill and under every green tree, like a prostitute sprawls out before her lovers.

For Jesus had started commanding the evil spirit to come out of the man. (For it had seized him many times, so he would be bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard. But he would break the restraints and be driven by the demon into deserted places.)

The trees of the field will yield their fruit and the earth will yield its crops. They will live securely on their land; they will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

Then I saw an angel descending from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the abyss and a huge chain.

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

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

We escaped with our lives, like a bird from a hunter's snare. The snare broke, and we escaped.

Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared, and a light shone in the prison cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly!" And the chains fell off Peter's wrists.

"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

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I am the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, from being their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and caused you to walk upright.

But God raised him up, having released him from the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held in its power.

Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.

The prophet Hananiah then took the yoke off the prophet Jeremiah's neck and broke it.

The Lord is just; he cut the ropes of the wicked."

I discovered this: More bitter than death is the kind of woman who is like a hunter's snare; her heart is like a hunter's net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her.

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

They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

Because of our God's tender mercy the dawn will break upon us from on high

before the silver cord is removed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the well, or the water wheel is broken at the cistern --

"Go and tell Hananiah that the Lord says, 'You have indeed broken the wooden yoke. But you have only succeeded in replacing it with an iron one!

Each night and every day among the tombs and in the mountains, he would cry out and cut himself with stones.

For the one who obeys the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

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

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.