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20 Bible Verses About Breaking Chains

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Summary

  • Psalm 107:13-14 and Nahum 1:13 speak of God bursting literal bonds apart, for prisoners in irons and for Judah under Assyria’s yoke.
  • Jesus read Isaiah 61:1 in the synagogue at Nazareth and said, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21).
  • In John 8:34-36 the chain is sin: “everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin,” and the Son sets the slave free.
  • Romans 6:18 describes those set free from sin as having “become slaves of righteousness,” a change of master.
  • Peter’s chains fell off in Acts 12:7, while in Acts 16:26 Paul and Silas stayed in the prison after their bonds were unfastened.

The Bible speaks of breaking chains in two senses: the literal bonds of prisoners, which God bursts apart, and slavery to sin, from which Christ sets people free. Psalm 107:14 records it and Nahum 1:13 promises it, Acts 12:7 records Peter’s chains falling off, and John 8:34-36 and Romans 6:6-7 describe the second. The two meet in Isaiah 61:1, “to proclaim liberty to the captives,” which Jesus read aloud in the synagogue at Nazareth and said was fulfilled that day…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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