38 Bible Verses about Darkness

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Ephesians 5:13

but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.

Matthew 10:27

"What I am telling you is in the darkness, do you speak in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

Luke 11:34

"The lamp of the body is your eye; when your eye is single then your whole body is full of light; but when it is evil your whole body is full of darkness.

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Darkness » Spiritual

Darkness » Works of

More verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:7

Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions

More verses: Isaiah 59:9

Darkness » Figurative of punishment

Jude 1:6

while the angels who did not keep their first domain but left their proper abode, are held by him in blank darkness, in everlasting chains, in preparation for the judgment of the Great Day.

More verses: Job 18:5

Darkness » Illustrative of » Greatness and unsearchableness of God

Darkness » Physical

More verses: Amos 4:13

Darkness » Figurative » See also the following scriptures

More verses: Psalm 18:11 Hebrews 12:18

Darkness » Illustrative of » Ignorance and error

More verses: John 12:35

Darkness » Who is in darkness

1 John 2:9-11

He who says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. But he who loves his brother is abiding in the light, and in it there is no cause of stumbling. But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and is spending his life in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Darkness » Those that walk in darkness

1 John 2:11

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

John 11:9-10

Jesus replied. "Are there not twelve hours in the daytime? If any one walks in the daytime he does not stumble, because he beholds the light of this world; but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

John 12:35-36

"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the Light, believe in the Light, so that you may become Sons of Light."

Ephesians 4:17-18

This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds; having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

1 John 1:5-6

This, then, is the message that we have heard from him, and are announcing to you, that God is light, and no darkness what ever is in him. If we say, "We have partnership with Him," when we are passing our life in the darkness, we are lying and are not doing the truth.

Darkness » Supernatural

Darkness » Figurative » power of darkness,

Darkness » Illustrative of » The punishment of devils and wicked men

Darkness » What came out of darkness

Darkness » Illustrative of » The power of satan

Darkness » Illustrative of » A course of sin

Darkness » Illustrative of » Secrecy

Matthew 10:27

"What I am telling you is in the darkness, do you speak in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

Darkness » Miraculous » On mount sinai

Hebrews 12:18

For you are not come to a palpable and enkindled fire,

Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Thick

Darkness » Illustrative of » The grave

Darkness » Over the face of the earth

Darkness » Created by God

Darkness » Caused by the setting of the sun

John 6:17

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to go astray

1 John 2:11

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

John 12:35

"The Light is among you a little longer," answered Jesus. "Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

Darkness » Miraculous » In egypt

Darkness » Figurative » outer darkness,

Darkness » Who is not in darkness

1 Thessalonians 5:4-5

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit. For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness.

Darkness » The wicked » The children of

Darkness » Miraculous » At mount sinai

Hebrews 12:18

For you are not come to a palpable and enkindled fire,

Darkness » What happens in the night

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

Darkness » Miraculous » At the crucifixion

Darkness » Miraculous » Over the land of egypt

Darkness » Casting off the works of darkness

Romans 13:11-12

Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light.

Darkness » Cannot hide us from God

Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Gross

Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Great

Darkness » Miraculous » Before the destruction of jerusalem

Darkness » Miraculous » At the death of Christ

Darkness » When your body is full of darkness

Luke 11:34-35

"The lamp of the body is your eye; when your eye is single then your whole body is full of light; but when it is evil your whole body is full of darkness. "Look carefully! Perhaps that very light of yours is darkness.

Darkness » What is as darkness

Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » That may be felt

Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Outer or extreme

Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to stumble

Darkness » Effects of » Cannot » See » Objects

Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of

Darkness » The wicked » Live in

Darkness » Inexplicable nature of

Darkness » The lord creating darkness

Darkness » Those that put darkness for light, and light for darkness

Darkness » Originally covered the earth

Darkness » Separated from the light

Darkness » Called night

Darkness » The wicked » Walk in

Darkness » There being no darkness in God

Darkness » Exhibits God's power and greatness

Darkness » Often put for night

Darkness » Illustrative of » Anything hateful

Darkness » The wicked » Perpetrate their designs in

Darkness » Illustrative of » Abstruse and deep subjects

Darkness » God creates

Darkness » Called the swaddling band of the sea

Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Darkness

intercession » Answered » Instances of » Of moses, in behalf of pharaoh » Plague » Darkness

Miracles » To witness to Christ as messiah spurious » Darkness

Plague » Darkness

Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Darkness

Spiritual » Crowns » Darkness

Topics on Darkness

Darkness Of Night

John 6:17

There they got in a boat, and started across the sea for Capernaum. The darkness had already fallen,

darkness, natural

Hebrews 12:18-21

For you are not come to a palpable and enkindled fire,

Overtaken By Darkness

Acts 13:11

"The Lord's hand is now upon you, and you shall be blind, not seeing the sun for a season." Instantly there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and groping about, he sought some one to lead him by the hand.

Spiritual Darkness

John 11:10

but if any one walks during the night he does stumble, because the light is not in him."

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