47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:

And light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not.

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.

And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For every one doing bad things hates the light, and he comes not to the light, lest his works should be rebuked.

The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief.

Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house, In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness:

And they shall look to the earth, and behold, straits and darkness and fainting of distress; and to darkness being removed.

For I was not cut off from the face of darkness, and he covered misfortune from my face.

Light arose in darkness to the upright: merciful and compassionate and just

Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger.

And they shall groan against them in that day as the groaning of the sea: and they looked to the land and, behold, straitened darkness, and the light darkened in its clouds.

Also the angels not having kept their beginning, but having left their own habitation, he has kept in perpetual chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

He cursing his father and his mother, his lamp shall go out in the midst of darkness.

And he will set darkness round about him for booths, The gatherings of waters the darkness of clouds.

A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

And the people will stand from far off, and Moses will draw near to the darkness where God is there.

He will incline the heavens and come down; And darkness under his feet

Then said Solomon, Jehovah spake to dwell in thick clouds.

And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.

And to rule in the day and in the night, and to separate between the light and between the darkness: And God will see that it is good.

That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months.

Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place?

Thou didst set darkness and it will be night: in it all the beasts of the forest shall creep.

A cloud and darkness round about him: justice and judgment the preparing of his throne.

Then said Solomon, Jehovah spake to dwell in thick clouds.

And it shall be in the third day, it being in the morning, and there shall be voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people in the camp will tremble.

He will incline the heavens and come down; And darkness under his feet And he will ride upon a cherub and fly: And he will be seen upon the wings of the wind. And he will set darkness round about him for booths, The gatherings of waters the darkness of clouds.

Then said Solomon, Jehovah said to dwell in thick clouds.

And light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not.

To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.

Make known to us what we shall say to him we shall not set in order from the face of darkness.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gloom the nations: and Jehovah shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Meditation shall watch over thee, understanding shall guard thee: To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit; Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness; read more.
Those rejoicing to do evil will exult in the deceit of evil; Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside:

They were among the rebels of light; they knew not his ways, and they dwelt not in his beaten paths. The murderer will rise by light; he will kill the poor and needy; and in the night he will be as a thief. And the eye of the adulterer watched the twilight, saying, Eye shall not perceive me: and secretly he will set the face. read more.
To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light

The wise, his eyes in his head; and the foolish one goes in darkness: and I knew, I also, that one event will meet with them all.

He saying he is in the light, and hating his brother, is in the darkness even until now. He loving his brother remains in light, and there is no stumbling-block in him. And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of the day.? If any walk in the day, he stumbles not, for he sees the light of this world. But if any walk in the night, he stumbles, for light is not in him.

Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have light, lest darkness overtake you: and he walking in darkness knows not where he retires. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye might be the sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and having departed, he was hid from them.

Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him. If we say that we have communion with him, and walk in darkness, we are deceived, and do not the truth:

And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

He sent darkness, and he will darken; and they embittered not his words.

And from the sixth hour, darkness was upon all the earth, even to the ninth hour.

And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great shaking; and the sun was black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon was as blood;

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the wild beast; and his kingdom was darkened; and they pressed their tongues for pain,

I being with you daily in the temple, ye stretched not forth the hands upon me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

For if God spared not the angels having sinned, but delivered up, hurled into Tartarus, to cords of darkness, having been kept for judgment;

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

For God, having spoken light to shine out of darkness, who shone in our hearts, to the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. And God will say there shall be light, and there shall be light

For the wrestling is not to us against blood and flesh, but against beginnings, against powers, against the chiefs of the world of darkness of this life, against spiritual things of wickedness in heavenly things.

Who saved us from the power of darkness, and transferred into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

And participate not with the unfruitful works of darkness, and rather also confute.

Those forsaking the paths of straightness to go in the ways of darkness;

What I say to you in darkness, speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the houses.

I spake not in secret in a dark place of the earth: I said not to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I Jehovah speak justice, announcing straightnesses.

And it shall be in the third day, it being in the morning, and there shall be voices, and lightnings, and a heavy cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly strong; and all the people in the camp will tremble.

For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,

A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

These words Jehovah spake to all your gathering in the mount, from the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the gloom, a great voice; and he added not: and he will write them upon two tables of stone and will give them to me.

He will watch the feet of the merciful and the unjust shall be silent in darkness; for not by strength shall man prevail.

Before I shall go and turn back to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as thick darkness; of the shadow of death, and not orders, and the brightness, as thick darkness.

In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:

And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.

I saw the earth, and behold, emptiness and a void; and to the heavens, and no lights.

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

Thou didst set darkness and it will be night: in it all the beasts of the forest shall creep.

And the sun shall be going down, and it was thick darkness, and behold a furnace of smoke and a lamp of fire that passed over between these pieces.

And having entered into a ship, they came beyond the sea to Capernaum. And already was there darkness, and Jesus had not come to them.

And he hating his brother is in darkness, and walks about in darkness, and knows not where he goes forward, for darkness has blinded his eyes.

Then said Jesus to them, Yet a little time the light is with you. Walk while ye have light, lest darkness overtake you: and he walking in darkness knows not where he retires.

He sent darkness, and he will darken; and they embittered not his words.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and darkness shall be upon the land of Egypt, and the darkness shall be felt And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

Then said the king to his servants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him away, and cast ye him into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

And cast ye the useless servant into darkness without; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

And ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day as a thief overtake you. Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.

And the people will stand from far off, and Moses will draw near to the darkness where God is there.

For ye have not come to the mount being handled, and burned with fire, and to duskiness, and to darkness, and to a violent storm,

For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.

And from the sixth hour, darkness was upon all the earth, even to the ninth hour.

And being the sixth hour, darkness was upon the whole earth till the ninth hour.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and darkness shall be upon the land of Egypt, and the darkness shall be felt And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

And saying, surely the darkness shall fall upon me; and the night shone about me. Also darkness shall not darken from thee; and the night shall shine as the day: as the darkness, so the light

Ye shall give glory to Jehovah your God, before he shall darken, and before your feet shall strike upon the mountains of darkness, and ye waited for light, and he set it for the shadow of death, he will place for gloom.

And the sun shall be going down, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold terror and great darkness fell upon him.

And quickly after the pressure of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken;

And from the sixth hour, darkness was upon all the earth, even to the ninth hour.

The light of the body is the eye; when therefore thine eye be plain, also thy whole body is clear: and when it be evil, also thy body dark. Take heed therefore lest the light in thee be darkness.

The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and darkness shall be upon the land of Egypt, and the darkness shall be felt

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

We shall feel for the wall as the blind, and we shall feel, as no eyes: we stumbled at noon as at evening twilight; in fertile fields as the dead.

They saw not a man his brother, and they rose not up each from his lower part, three days: and to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness

They sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound with affliction and iron.

Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place? That thou shalt take it to its bound, and that thou shalt understand the beaten paths of its house?

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

Wo to those saying, to evil, good, and to the good, evil; putting darkness for light, and light for darkness; putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitten

And the earth was desolation and emptiness, and darkness over the face of the deep: and the spirit of God moved over the face of the waters.

And God will see the light that it is good, and God will separate between the light and between the darkness.

And God will call to the light day, and to the darkness he called night: and the evening shall be, and the morning shall be one day.

They will not know, they will not Understand: they will go about in darkness: all the foundations of the earth will be moved.

And this is the message which we have heard from him, and we announce to you, that God is light, and no darkness is in him.

And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb. In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:

From the word that shall go in darkness: from the cutting off that shall lay waste the noon-day.

That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it. Darkness shall pollute it, and the shadow of death; a cloud shall dwell upon it; the obscurations of day shall terrify it That night darkness shall take it; it shall not be joined upon the days of the year; it shall not come into the number of months. read more.
Behold, that night shall be hard; no rejoicing shall be in it They cursing the day shall curse it, they being ready to rouse up the sea monster. The stars of its twilight shall he dark; it shall wait for light, and none; and it shall not look upon the eyelashes of the dawn.,

To break through houses in darkness in the day they shut up for themselves: they knew not light

He set an end to darkness, and he searched out for all completeness: the stone of darkness and the shadow of death.

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these.

In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage:

A day of darkness and of thick darkness; a day of cloud and gloom as the morning spread upon the mountains: great and strong people; the like to him was not from forever, and after him there shall not be added even to the years of generation and generation.

A day of wrath, that day a day of straits and distress, a day of storm and desolation, a day of darkness and thick darkness, a day of cloud and gloom,

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and darkness shall be upon the land of Egypt, and the darkness shall be felt And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They saw not a man his brother, and they rose not up each from his lower part, three days: and to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards the heavens, and darkness shall be upon the land of Egypt, and the darkness shall be felt And Moses will stretch forth his hand toward the heavens, and there shall be thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They saw not a man his brother, and they rose not up each from his lower part, three days: and to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; weeping shall be there, and gnashing of teeth.

The night has advanced, and the day has drawn near: therefore let us lay down the works of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be dark. If therefore the light which in thee is darkness, how much the darkness

For ye were then darkness, and now light in the Lord: walk ye as children of light:

And light shines in darkness; and darkness comprehended it not.

And this is the judgment, that light has come into the world, and men rather loved darkness than light, for their works were evil.