Are there situations or relationships that have a hold on you, habits that need to be broken, or spiritual battles that you are facing? Read 33 Bible verses on breaking chains.
We often hear the term ‘breaking chains’ in the Christian community. But what does it mean for God to break chains, and how does Scripture present this idea?
We can see through various passages in the Bible that God not only set people free from the physical bonds, slavery or wrongful imprisonment that they were in. But He also sets people free from the bonds of sin and death. This is a spiritual breaking of chains that believers experience when they come to saving faith in Jesus.
In our walk with Christ, we will encounter many other things in our lives that can be described as chains, that we can ask God to break in our lives.
May these 33 Bible verses encourage you as you seek freedom in Christ for the areas in your life that have felt chained.
33 Bible Verses on Breaking Chains
1. Psalm 107:10-16 – He Broke Away Their Chains
“Some sat in darkness, in utter darkness, prisoners suffering in iron chains, because they rebelled against God’s commands and despised the plans of the Most High.
So he subjected them to bitter labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them from their distress.
He brought them out of darkness, the utter darkness, and broke away their chains. Let them give thanks to the Lord for his unfailing love and his wonderful deeds for mankind, for he breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron.“
2. Galatians 5:1 – It is for Freedom That Christ Has Set Us Free
“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”
3. Nahum 1:13 – Break Their Yoke and Tear Your Shackles Away
“Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.”
4. Acts 16:26 – Everyone’s Chains Came Loose
“Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.”
5. Isaiah 58:6 – Break Every Yoke
“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?”
6. Jeremiah 30:8 – Tear Off Their Bonds
“In that day, declares the Lord Almighty, I will break the yoke off their necks and will tear off their bonds; no longer will foreigners enslave them.”
7. Isaiah 10:27 – Their Burden will Be Lifted From Your Shoulders
“In that day their burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.”
8. Jeremiah 5:5 – With One Accord They Broke Off the Yoke
“So I will go to the leaders and speak to them; surely they know the way of the Lord, the requirements of their God. But with one accord they too had broken off the yoke and torn off the bonds.”
9. Isaiah 52:2 – Free Yourself From The Chains On Your Neck
“Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck, Daughter Zion, now a captive.”
10. Psalm 68:6 – He Leads Prisoners Out with Singing
“God sets the lonely in families, he leads out the prisoners with singing; but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched land.”
11. Acts 13:39 – Those Who Believe Are Set Free From Every Sin
“Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.”
12. Ezekiel 34:27 – He Rescues From the Hands of those Who Enslave
“The trees will yield their fruit and the ground will yield its crops; the people will be secure in their land. They will know that I am the Lord, when I break the bars of their yoke and rescue them from the hands of those who enslaved them.”
13. Acts 21:13 – Willing to be Bound For Christ’s Name Sake
‘Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”‘
14. Isaiah 42:6-7 – Free Captives
“I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.”
15. Acts 12:6-7 – Chains Fell Off Peter’s Wrists
“The night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries stood guard at the entrance. Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. “Quick, get up!” he said, and the chains fell off Peter’s wrists.”
16. Leviticus 26:13 – He Broke the Bards of Their Yoke
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.”
17. Romans 8:21 – Liberated From It’s Bondage
“For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.”
18. Jeremiah 28:10 – He Broke the Yoke
“Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.”
19. Psalm 129:4 – He Cuts Free From the Cords of the Wicked
“But the Lord is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”
20. John 8:36 – If Jesus Sets You Free, You Are Free
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
21. Psalm 116:16 – You Have Freed Me From My Chains
“Truly I am your servant, Lord; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.”
22. Romans 6:18 – Free From Sin and Slaves to Righteousness
“You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.”
23. 1 John 1:9 – Purify Us From All Unrighteousness
“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.”
24. Romans 8:1-2 – The Law of the Spirit Has Set You Free From the Law of Sin and Death
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.”
25. John 8:32 – The Truth Will Set You Free
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
26. Acts 4:12 – Salvation Is Found In Christ Alone
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.”
27. 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 – They Have Divine Power to Demolish Strongholds
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
28. 2 Corinthians 3:17 – Where the Spirit of the Lord Is, There is Freedom
“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
29. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – You Were Bought At A Price
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies.”
30. Galatians 5:13 – You Have Been Called to Be Free
“You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.”
31. Psalm 118:5 – He Brought Me Into A Spacious Place
“When hard pressed, I cried to the Lord; he brought me into a spacious place.”
32. Jeremiah 40:4 – Freeing You From the Chains On Your Wrists
“But today I am freeing you from the chains on your wrists. Come with me to Babylon, if you like, and I will look after you; but if you do not want to, then don’t come. Look, the whole country lies before you; go wherever you please.”
33. Isaiah 61:1 – Proclaim Freedom For the Captives
“The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners.”
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