'Breaking' in the Bible

Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break [the sanctity of] the Sabbath and yet are innocent?

Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

A fierce windstorm arose, and the waves were breaking over the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped.

The king was deeply grieved, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests [who might have regarded him as weak], he was unwilling to [break his word and] refuse her.

Now while Jesus was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper, reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of costly aromatic oil from pure nard. After breaking open the jar, she poured it on his head.

And having done this, they enclosed a great multitude of fishes, and their net was breaking,

But the one who has [merely] heard and has not practiced [what I say], is like a [foolish] man who built a house on the ground without any foundation, and the torrent burst against it; and it immediately collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

For he commanded the unclean spirit to come forth from the man, for many times it had caught him, and he was being bound with chains and fetters -- guarded, and breaking asunder the bonds he was driven by the demons to the deserts.

When He had reclined at the table with them, He took the bread and blessed it, and breaking it, He began giving it to them.

And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a man undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, why are you angry with Me for making a man’s whole body well on the Sabbath?

Then they came to Jesus Himself: but when they saw that He was already dead, they refrained from breaking His legs.

Just as dawn was breaking, Jesus stood on the shore. The disciples didn't realize it was Jesus.

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

After going upstairs, breaking the bread, and eating, Paul conversed a considerable time until dawn. Then he left.

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

Then Paul said to him, God will smite thee, whited wall. And thou, dost thou sit judging me according to the law, and breaking the law commandest me to be smitten?

And [after he] said these [things] and took bread, he gave thanks to God in front of [them] all, and [after] breaking [it], he began to eat.

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

and so incur judgment for breaking their former pledge.

For whoever keeps the entire law, yet fails in one point, is guilty of breaking it all.

You adulteresses [disloyal sinners—flirting with the world and breaking your vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend [that is, loving the things of the world] is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Everyone who commits sin also breaks the law; sin is the breaking of law.