47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose [them].

The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

For everyone who practices evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds be exposed.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

passing on the street {at} her corner, and he takes the road [to] her house, at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!

Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.

[His] light rises in the darkness for the upright; [he is] gracious and compassionate and righteous.

Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment.

And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.

And [the] angels who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling place, he has kept in eternal bonds under deep gloom for the judgment of the great day,

These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie him up {hand and foot} [and] throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.

He put darkness [as] a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.

Cloud and thick darkness [are] surrounding him; righteousness and justice [are] the foundation of his throne.

And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.

He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud [was] under his feet.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that [he] would dwell in the very thick cloud.

Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness [was] over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [was] hovering over the surface of the waters.

and to rule over the day and over the night, and to {separate light from darkness}. And God saw that [it was] good.

Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place,

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

Cloud and thick darkness [are] surrounding him; righteousness and justice [are] the foundation of his throne.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that [he] would dwell in the very thick cloud.

{And} on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain and a very loud ram's horn sound, and all the people who [were] in the camp trembled.

He bowed the heavens and came down; a very thick cloud [was] under his feet. He rode upon a cherub and flew; he was seen on the wings of the wind. He put darkness [as] a canopy all around him, a collection of {thick rain clouds}.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has decided to dwell in the deep gloom.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

to open their eyes [so that they] may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, [so that] they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.

For look! darkness shall cover [the] earth, and thick darkness [the] peoples, but Yahweh will rise on you, and his glory will appear over you.

Discretion will watch over you; understanding will protect you, [in order] to deliver you from the way of evil, from a man who speaks devious things-- those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness, read more.
those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil, {who are crooked in their ways}, and devious in their paths;

"Those are among [the ones] rebelling [against the] light; they do not recognize his ways, and they do not stay in his paths. {At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief. And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face. read more.
He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light

{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.

The one who says [he] is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother resides in the light, and [there] is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus replied, Are [there] not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks around in the daylight, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if anyone walks around in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, in order that you may become sons of light." Jesus said these [things], and [then] he went away [and] was hidden from them.

This therefore I say and testify in the Lord, [that] you no longer walk as the Gentiles walk: in the futility of their mind, being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light and there [is] no darkness in him at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

And I watched when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake took place, and the sun became black like sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves},

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened, and they began chewing their tongues because of the pain.

Every day [when] I was with you in the temple [courts], you did not stretch out [your] hands against me! But this is your hour and the domain of darkness!"

For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but held [them] captive in Tartarus with chains of darkness [and] handed [them] over to be kept for judgment,

These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie him up {hand and foot} [and] throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

For God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," [is the one] who has shined in our hearts for the enlightenment of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness [was] over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [was] hovering over the surface of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light!" And there was light.

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].

who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves},

And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose [them].

those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear in your ear, proclaim on the housetops.

I have spoken not in secrecy, in a place, a land, of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, 'Seek me {in vain}!' I, Yahweh, [am] speaking righteousness, declaring uprightness.

{And} on the third day, when it was morning, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy cloud over the mountain and a very loud ram's horn sound, and all the people who [were] in the camp trembled.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

"These words Yahweh spoke to your whole assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire and the very thick cloud [with] a loud voice, and {he did not add anything}, and [then] he wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked will be destroyed in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by [his] might.

Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow, to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"

at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness [was] over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [was] hovering over the surface of the waters.

I looked at the earth, and behold, it was wasteland and emptiness, and to the heavens, and [they were] without their light.

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

You make darkness, and it is night, when all [the] animals of the forest creep about.

And after the sun had gone down and it [was] dusk, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch passed between those half pieces.

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

So Jesus said to them, "Yet a little time the light is with you! Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness does not overtake you! And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

He sent darkness and made [it] dark, and they did not rebel against his words.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness." And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

Then the king said to the servants, 'Tie him up {hand and foot} [and] throw him into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

And throw the worthless slave into the outer darkness--in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!'

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief, for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.

For you have not come to something that can be touched, and to a burning fire, and to darkness, and to gloom, and to a whirlwind,

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

And [when] the sixth hour came, darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness." And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

And [do] this [because you] know the time, that [it is] already the hour for you to wake up from sleep. For our salvation [is] nearer now than when we believed. The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

And if I should say, "Surely darkness will cover me, and [the] light around me [will be as] night," even [the] darkness is not too dark for you, and [the] night shines as the day-- the darkness [and] the light are alike [for you].

Give glory to Yahweh your God {before} he brings darkness, and {before} your feet stumble on the mountains at twilight. And you will hope for light, but he makes it as gloom, he makes [it] as thick darkness.

And it happened, as the sun {went down}, then a deep sleep fell upon Abram and, behold, a great terrifying darkness fell upon him.

"And immediately after the tribulation of those days, 'the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.'

Now from the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is sincere, your whole body is full of light also. But when it is evil, your body [is] dark also. Therefore pay careful attention [that] the light in you is not darkness!

The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness."

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

We grope like the blind [along] a wall, and we grope {as without} eyes. We stumble at noon as [in] the twilight; among the strong [we are] like the dead.

No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were} [for] three days, but there was light for the {Israelites} in their dwellings.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

[Those who] sat in darkness and gloom, prisoners of misery and iron--

"Where then [is] the way [where] [the] light dwells? And where then [is] its place, that you may take it to its territory, and that you might discern the paths to its home?

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

Ah! Those who call evil good and good evil, those who put darkness for light and light for darkness, those who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Now the earth was formless and empty, and darkness [was] over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God [was] hovering over the surface of the waters.

And God saw the light, that [it was] good, and God caused [there to be] a separation between the light and between the darkness.

And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, [the] first day.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

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

"Or [who] shut [the] sea in with doors at its bursting, [when] it went out of [the] womb, at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

[or the] plague [that] spreads in the darkness, [or the] destruction [that] devastates at noon.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it. Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day. Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months. read more.
Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it. Let those who curse the day curse it, those who are skilled at rousing Leviathan. Let the stars of its dawn be dark; let it hope for light but there be none, and let it not see [the] eyelids of dawn

He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light

He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits [for the] ore [in] gloom and deep shadow.

form light and create darkness; make peace and create evil; I [am] Yahweh; do all these [things].

at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,

A day of darkness and gloom, a day of cloud and thick darkness, like the dawn spreads on the mountains, a great and strong army! There has been nothing like it from old, and after it nothing will be again {for generations to come}.

That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds,

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness." And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days. No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were} [for] three days, but there was light for the {Israelites} in their dwellings.

And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the heavens so that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt and so that [a person can] feel darkness." And Moses stretched out his hand toward the heavens, and there was darkness of night in all the land of Egypt [for] three days. No one could see his brother, and {because of it no one could move from where they were} [for] three days, but there was light for the {Israelites} in their dwellings.

These [people] are waterless springs and mists driven by a hurricane, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved.

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!"

The night is far gone, and the day has drawn near. Therefore let us throw off the deeds of darkness and put on the weapons of light.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.

And this is the judgment: that the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.