22 Bible Verses about Acting In Secret

For the things they do in secret are shameful even to mention.

The Israelites said things about the Lord their God that were not right. They built high places in all their cities, from the watchtower to the fortress.

He said to me, "Do you see, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in the chamber of his idolatrous images? For they think, 'The Lord does not see us! The Lord has abandoned the land!'"

"Stolen waters are sweet, and food obtained in secret is pleasant!"

They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast, "Who will see them?"

The Lord's angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash's son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.

and will secretly eat her afterbirth and her newborn children (since she has nothing else), because of the severity of the siege by which your enemy will constrict you in your villages.

Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

Although you have acted in secret, I will do this thing before all Israel, and in broad daylight.'"

You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

Two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the chief priests and the experts in the law were trying to find a way to arrest Jesus by stealth and kill him.

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Then they secretly instigated some men to say, "We have heard this man speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God."

I will give you hidden treasures, riches stashed away in secret places, so you may recognize that I am the Lord, the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.

my bones were not hidden from you, when I was made in secret and sewed together in the depths of the earth.

But when you do your giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

Because Joseph, her husband to be, was a righteous man, and because he did not want to disgrace her, he intended to divorce her privately.

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

A gift given in secret subdues anger, and a bribe given secretly subdues strong wrath.

But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the Lord's flock, will be carried into exile."