47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house, At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

If anyone puts a curse on his father or his mother, his light will be put out in the blackest night.

And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet.

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

The heavens were bent, so that he might come down; and it was dark under his feet. And he went through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind. And he made the dark his tent round him, a mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men,

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you; Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false; Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; read more.
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner; Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them. He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need. And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about; read more.
In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark. He who has love for his brother is in the light, and there is no cause of error in him. But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going. In so far as you have the light, put your faith in the light so that you may become sons of light. With these words Jesus went away and for a time was not seen again by them.

This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit, Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark. If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

And I saw when the sixth stamp was undone, and there was a great earth-shock; and the sun became black as haircloth, and all the moon became as blood;

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.

When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.

And when morning came on the third day, there were thunders and flames and a thick cloud on the mountain, and a horn sounding very loud; and all the people in the tents were shaking with fear.

You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the evil-doers will come to their end in the dark night, for by strength no man will overcome.

Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black, A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

Then when the sun went down and it was dark, he saw a smoking fire and a flaming light which went between the parts of the bodies.

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

He sent black night and made it dark; and they did not go against his word.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief: For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.

You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith. The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night; Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.

Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark. So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark.

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

Those who were in the dark, in the black night, in chains of sorrow and iron;

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark; So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,

Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it; Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it. That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. read more.
As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it; Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake. Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

When I made the cloud its robe, and put thick clouds as bands round it,

For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;

And the Lord said to Moses, Let your hand be stretched out to heaven, and all the land of Egypt will be dark, so that men will be feeling their way about in the dark. And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days; They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

These are fountains without water, and mists before a driving storm; for whom the eternal night is kept in store.

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.