Bible Verses With Yoke

The concept of a “yoke” in the Bible is a powerful metaphor representing both burden and partnership. Throughout Scripture, the yoke symbolizes human struggles, responsibilities, and God’s desire to share those burdens with us. In this post, we will explore Bible verses that mention the yoke, revealing how God invites us to rely on His strength and find rest in Him. Whether it’s about freedom, faith, or fellowship, these verses provide insight into the significance of the yoke in our spiritual journey.

Bible Verses With Yoke

Matthew 11:29-30 – Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.

Jeremiah 2:20 – Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, ‘I will not serve you!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Leviticus 26:13 – 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.

Galatians 5:1 – 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.

Isaiah 10:27 – 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.

1 Kings 12:4 – Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but now lighten the harsh labor and the heavy yoke he put on us, and we will serve you.

Lamentations 3:27 – It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young.

Deuteronomy 28:48 – Therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Isaiah 58:6 – 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?

Acts 15:10 – Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of Gentiles a yoke that neither we nor our ancestors have been able to bear?

Jeremiah 28:10 – Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah and broke it.

Jeremiah 30:8 – 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.

Genesis 27:40 – You will live by the sword and you will serve your brother. But when you grow restless, you will throw his yoke from off your neck.

2 Corinthians 6:14 – Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

Jeremiah 27:2 – This is what the Lord said to me: Make a yoke out of straps and crossbars and put it on your neck.

Jeremiah 28:2 – This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Hosea 11:4 – I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. To them I was like one who lifts a little child to the cheek, and I bent down to feed them.

Jeremiah 28:14 – This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: I will put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations to make them serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him.

Jeremiah 5:5 – 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.

1 Kings 12:9 – He asked them, What is your advice? How should we answer these people who say to me, ‘Lighten the yoke your father put on us’?

Nehemiah 9:28 – But as soon as they were at rest, they again did what was evil in your sight. Then you abandoned them to the hand of their enemies so that they ruled over them. And when they cried out to you again, you heard from heaven, and in your compassion you delivered them time after time.

Isaiah 14:25 – I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.

Jeremiah 28:11 – And he said before all the people, This is what the Lord says: In the same way I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon off the neck of all the nations within two years. At this, the prophet Jeremiah went on his way.

1 Kings 12:10 – The young men who had grown up with him replied, These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.’

Ezekiel 34:27 – 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.

Psalm 81:6 – I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.

Isaiah 9:4 – For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

Jeremiah 28:12 – After the prophet Hananiah had broken the yoke off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah.

Jeremiah 27:8 – If, however, any nation or kingdom will not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon or bow its neck under his yoke, I will punish that nation with the sword, famine, and plague, declares the Lord, until I destroy it by his hand.

1 Timothy 6:1 – All who are under the yoke of slavery should consider their masters worthy of full respect, so that God’s name and our teaching may not be slandered.

Exodus 6:7 – I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.

Jeremiah 30:8 – 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.

Deuteronomy 28:47-48 – Because you did not serve the Lord your God joyfully and gladly in the time of prosperity, therefore in hunger and thirst, in nakedness and dire poverty, you will serve the enemies the Lord sends against you. He will put an iron yoke on your neck until he has destroyed you.

Lamentations 1:14 – My sins have been bound into a yoke; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

1 Kings 12:11 – My father laid on you a heavy yoke; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.

Deuteronomy 32:15 – Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior.

Nehemiah 9:37 – Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.

Numbers 25:3 – So Israel yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor. And the Lord’s anger burned against them.

Jeremiah 2:20 – Long ago you broke off your yoke and tore off your bonds; you said, I will not serve you! Indeed, on every high hill and under every spreading tree you lay down as a prostitute.

Isaiah 47:6 – I was angry with my people and desecrated my inheritance; I gave them into your hand, and you showed them no mercy. Even on the aged you laid a very heavy yoke.

Isaiah 30:28 – His breath is like a rushing torrent, rising up to the neck. He shakes the nations in the sieve of destruction; he places in the jaws of the peoples a bit that leads them astray.

Jeremiah 5:5 – 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.

Isaiah 9:4 – For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

Exodus 5:4 – But the king of Egypt said, Moses and Aaron, why are you taking the people away from their labor? Get back to your work!

Judges 3:10 – The Spirit of the Lord came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge and went to war. The Lord gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

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