22 Bible Verses about Acting In Secret

for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

“Stolen water is sweet;
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places;
Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

They hold fast to themselves an evil purpose;
They talk of laying snares secretly;
They say, “Who can see them?”

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

and toward her afterbirth which issues from between her legs and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of anything else, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in your towns.

Then Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.

Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.’”

You pierced with his own spears
The head of his throngs.
They stormed in to scatter us;
Their exultation was like those
Who devour the oppressed in secret.

Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

Then they secretly induced men to say, “We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God.”

“I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden wealth of secret places,
So that you may know that it is I,
The Lord, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.

My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;

But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man and not wanting to disgrace her, planned to send her away secretly.

so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

A gift in secret subdues anger,
And a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.