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100 Bible Verses about Shackles

Mark 5:4 ESV / 98 helpful votes

For he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him.

Psalm 149:8 ESV / 87 helpful votes

To bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,

Psalm 105:18 ESV / 79 helpful votes

His feet were hurt with fetters; his neck was put in a collar of iron;

Luke 8:29 ESV / 78 helpful votes

For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. (For many a time it had seized him. He was kept under guard and bound with chains and shackles, but he would break the bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.)

Psalm 2:3 ESV / 77 helpful votes

“Let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.”

Mark 5:3 ESV / 74 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 67 helpful votes

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 39:7 ESV / 65 helpful votes

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:11 ESV / 63 helpful votes

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Acts 16:26 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

Acts 12:7 ESV / 57 helpful votes

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 56 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Psalm 116:16 ESV / 54 helpful votes

O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

Acts 4:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 52 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Psalm 68:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

God settles the solitary in a home; he leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

Acts 12:6 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Corinthians 10:1-18 ESV / 50 helpful votes

I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!— I beg of you that when I am present I may not have to show boldness with such confidence as I count on showing against some who suspect us of walking according to the flesh. For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, ...

Romans 8:15 ESV / 50 helpful votes

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

John 3:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Nahum 1:13 ESV / 50 helpful votes

And now I will break his yoke from off you and will burst your bonds apart.”

1 Peter 5:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

Galatians 5:1 ESV / 48 helpful votes

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:8 ESV / 48 helpful votes

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 47 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Jude 1:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

1 John 2:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 47 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Hebrews 9:27 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

1 Corinthians 15:55 ESV / 47 helpful votes

“O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Acts 21:33 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Then the tribune came up and arrested him and ordered him to be bound with two chains. He inquired who he was and what he had done.

Acts 12:6-7 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.

Galatians 2:4 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery—

Acts 16:1-40 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Paul came also to Derbe and to Lystra. A disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but his father was a Greek. He was well spoken of by the brothers at Lystra and Iconium. Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew that his father was a Greek. As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily. ...

Nahum 3:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Isaiah 45:14 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over to you and be yours; they shall follow you; they shall come over in chains and bow down to you. They will plead with you, saying: ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other, no god besides him.’”

Job 12:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes

He looses the bonds of kings and binds a waistcloth on their hips.

John 8:36 ESV / 45 helpful votes

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Jeremiah 40:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him bound in chains along with all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.

John 8:32 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 3:14 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Mark 16:17 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 44 helpful votes

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...

Matthew 25:41 ESV / 44 helpful votes

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

Ezekiel 19:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes

With hooks they put him in a cage and brought him to the king of Babylon; they brought him into custody, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.

Ezekiel 19:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The nations heard about him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 40:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Now, behold, I release you today from the chains on your hands. If it seems good to you to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you well, but if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, do not come. See, the whole land is before you; go wherever you think it good and right to go.

Isaiah 40:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes

An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

Isaiah 3:19 ESV / 44 helpful votes

The pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves;

Proverbs 1:9 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

Psalm 107:10-14 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God, and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So he bowed their hearts down with hard labor; they fell down, with none to help. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

Romans 8:11 ESV / 43 helpful votes

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

John 14:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Psalm 107:10 ESV / 43 helpful votes

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons,

John 3:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

Numbers 18:1-32 ESV / 40 helpful votes

So the Lord said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear iniquity connected with the sanctuary, and you and your sons with you shall bear iniquity connected with your priesthood. And with you bring your brothers also, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may join you and minister to you while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony. They shall keep guard over you and over the whole tent, but shall not come near to the vessels of the sanctuary or to the altar lest they, and you, die. They shall join you and keep guard over the tent of meeting for all the service of the tent, and no outsider shall come near you. And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel. ...

Hebrews 9:9 ESV / 38 helpful votes

(which is symbolic for the present age). According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper,

Romans 5:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

Genesis 40:15 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

Mark 5:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Jeremiah 5:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Genesis 39:20 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

Mark 5:1 ESV / 27 helpful votes

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes.

Job 33:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

He puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’

Acts 16:24 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Having received this order, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Job 13:27 ESV / 23 helpful votes

You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

2 Chronicles 36:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and bound him in chains to take him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 33:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon.

Judges 16:21 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.

2 Kings 25:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

1 Kings 6:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

And Solomon overlaid the inside of the house with pure gold, and he drew chains of gold across, in front of the inner sanctuary, and overlaid it with gold.

Judges 8:26 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

Exodus 39:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

They attached the two ends of the two cords to the two settings of filigree. Thus they attached it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Exodus 39:17 ESV / 19 helpful votes

And they put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

Matthew 4:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, those having seizures, and paralytics, and he healed them.

Exodus 39:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And they made on the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

Exodus 28:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The two ends of the two cords you shall attach to the two settings of filigree, and so attach it in front to the shoulder pieces of the ephod.

Exodus 28:24 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And you shall put the two cords of gold in the two rings at the edges of the breastpiece.

Exodus 28:22 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You shall make for the breastpiece twisted chains like cords, of pure gold.

Exodus 28:14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And two chains of pure gold, twisted like cords; and you shall attach the corded chains to the settings.

1 Peter 2:1-2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

James 4:5 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?

James 3:14-16 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Galatians 5:25-26 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 5:21 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Proverbs 23:17-18 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the Lord all the day. Surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 15 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,

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