22 Bible Verses about Acting In Secret

For it is shameful even to mention what is done by them in secret.

The Israelites secretly did what was not right against the Lord their God. They built 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 doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us. The Lord has abandoned the land.’”

“Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”

sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

They encourage each other in an evil plan;
they talk about hiding traps and say,
“Who will see them?”

The Angel of the Lord came, and He sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash, the Abiezrite. His son Gideon was threshing wheat in the wine vat in order to hide it from the Midianites.

the afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you within your gates.

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove, saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a woman, a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”

You pierce his head
with his own spears;
his warriors storm out to scatter us,
gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Then they persuaded some men to say, “We heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!”

I will give you the treasures of darkness
and riches from secret places,
so that you may know that I, Yahweh,
the God of Israel call you by your name.

My bones were not hidden from You
when I was made in secret,
when I was formed in the depths of the earth.

But when you give to the poor, don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

So her husband Joseph, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her publicly, decided to divorce her secretly.

so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

A secret gift soothes anger,
and a covert bribe, fierce rage.

But if you will not listen,
my innermost being will weep in secret
because of your pride.
My eyes will overflow with tears,
for the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.