Bible Verses About Chains
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for chains, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 12,388 votes, led by Jude 1:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Chains
Jude 1:6315 votes
And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jeremiah 40:4312 votes
And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land is before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
2 Peter 2:4281 votes
For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
Psalms 2:3253 votes
Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Acts 21:33239 votes
Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
Psalms 107:10-14234 votes
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
1 Corinthians 6:19-20231 votes
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
1 John 1:9217 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Psalms 68:6206 votes
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Acts 12:7200 votes
And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Acts 12:6196 votes
And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.
Judges 8:26189 votes
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
2 Corinthians 10:1-18187 votes
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
Revelation 1:1184 votes
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
Luke 8:29177 votes
(For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
Psalms 149:8175 votes
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Mark 5:4175 votes
Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him.
Proverbs 1:9172 votes
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Exodus 28:14169 votes
And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
Exodus 39:15168 votes
And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
1 Kings 6:21167 votes
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
Isaiah 3:19166 votes
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Numbers 31:50164 votes
We have therefore brought an oblation for the Lord, what every man hath gotten, of jewels of gold, chains, and bracelets, rings, earrings, and tablets, to make an atonement for our souls before the Lord.
John 14:6162 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 3:16158 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
What does the Bible say about chains?
Readers most often cite Jude 1:6 on the subject of chains. Across 12,388 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 40:4, 2 Peter 2:4, Psalms 2:3. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.