38 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

For everyone who does wrong hates the light and will not come to it, for fear his actions will be exposed.

and the angels who neglected their responsibilities and abandoned their homes he has put in everlasting chains to be kept in darkness for the judgment of the great Day,

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven before the storm, and they are doomed to utter darkness.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

Whoever says, "I am in the light," and yet hates his brother, is still in darkness. Whoever loves his brother is always in the light and puts no hindrance in anyone's way. But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, "Is not the day twelve hours long? If a man travels by day he will not stumble, for he can see the light of this world; but if he travels at night he will stumble because he has no light."

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going. While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." With these words Jesus went away, and disappeared from them.

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding. They are estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and their obstinacy of heart,

This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all. If we say, "We have fellowship with him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not living the truth.

Now from noon there was darkness over the whole country until three o'clock.

When he broke the sixth seal I saw that there was a great earthquake. The sun turned black as sackcloth; the full moon became like blood;

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

The fifth emptied his bowl upon the animal's throne, and its kingdom was plunged in darkness, and men gnawed their tongues in anguish

When I was among you day after day in the Temple you never laid a hand on me! But you choose this hour, and the cover of darkness!"

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven before the storm, and they are doomed to utter darkness.

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, that is on the face of Christ.

For we have to struggle, not with enemies of flesh and blood, but with the hierarchies, the authorities, the master-spirits of this dark world, the spirit-forces of evil on high.

He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness, and has transferred us into the realm of his dear Son,

Have nothing to do with the profitless doings of the darkness; expose them instead.

What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.

For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

But whoever hates his brother is in darkness, and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, for the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus said to them, "You will have the light only a little while longer. Go on while you still have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for those who go about in the dark do not know where they are going.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness, there to weep and grind his teeth.'

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves. You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness.

For it is no tangible blazing fire that you have come up to, no blackness and darkness and storm,

For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk do so at night,

Now from noon there was darkness over the whole country until three o'clock.

At noon darkness spread over the whole country, and lasted until three in the afternoon.

All this especially, because you know this critical time and that it is time for you to wake from your sleep, for our salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed. The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

"But immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the forces of the sky will shake.

Now from noon there was darkness over the whole country until three o'clock.

Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is light, but when it is unsound, your body is dark. So take care! Your very light may be darkness!

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!

This is the message that we heard from him and announce to you: God is light; there is no darkness in him at all.

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven before the storm, and they are doomed to utter darkness.

while the heirs to the kingdom will be driven into the darkness outside, there to weep and grind their teeth!"

The night is nearly over; the day is at hand. So let us throw aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the armor of light.

but if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, your very light is darkness, how deep the darkness will be!

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

The light is still shining in the darkness, for the darkness has never put it out.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.