47 Bible Verses about Darkness
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This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."
For you will light my lamp, LORD. My God will light up my darkness.
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not tell the truth.
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
I will give you the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, who call you by your name, even the God of Israel.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know. I will lead them in paths that they do not know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, "Who sees us?" and "Who knows us?"
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Darkness » Spiritual
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Darkness » Works of
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
For everyone who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Heavy afflictions
and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.
All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
Darkness » Figurative of punishment
Angels who did not keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
but the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Greatness and unsearchableness of God
He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick cloud.
Darkness » Physical
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
Darkness » Figurative » See also the following scriptures
Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick cloud.
It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Ignorance and error
to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but the LORD will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.
Darkness » Who is in darkness
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; read more.
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
"These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know its ways, nor abide in its paths. The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. read more.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness?and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. But he 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.
Darkness » Those that walk in darkness
But he 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 answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight ? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and do not tell the truth.
Darkness » Supernatural
Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They did not rebel against his words.
I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became as blood.
Darkness » Figurative » power of darkness,
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,
When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
Darkness » Illustrative of » The punishment of devils and wicked men
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to the lower parts of hell, and committed them to chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;
These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
Darkness » What came out of darkness
seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
Darkness » Illustrative of » The power of satan
For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world's rulers of this darkness, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and transferred us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
Darkness » Illustrative of » A course of sin
Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Darkness » Illustrative of » Secrecy
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Darkness » Miraculous » On mount sinai
It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.
For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,
Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Thick
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
These words the LORD spoke to all your assembly on the mountain out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more. And he wrote them on two tablets of stone, and gave them to me.
Darkness » Illustrative of » The grave
He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness. For no man shall prevail by strength.
before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"
Darkness » Over the face of the earth
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
Darkness » Created by God
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.
Darkness » Caused by the setting of the sun
It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.
Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to go astray
But he 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 therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness does not overtake you. He who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
Darkness » Miraculous » In egypt
He sent darkness, and made it dark. They did not rebel against his words.
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
Darkness » Figurative » outer darkness,
but the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Darkness » Who is not in darkness
But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
Darkness » The wicked » The children of
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We do not belong to the night, nor to darkness,
Darkness » Miraculous » At mount sinai
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
For you have not come to something that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and darkness, gloom, and storm,
Darkness » What happens in the night
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
Darkness » Miraculous » At the crucifixion
When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
Darkness » Miraculous » Over the land of egypt
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
Darkness » Casting off the works of darkness
Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
Darkness » Cannot hide us from God
If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.
Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Gross
Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Great
When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Darkness » Miraculous » Before the destruction of jerusalem
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Darkness » Miraculous » At the death of Christ
Darkness » When your body is full of darkness
The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you is not darkness.
Darkness » What is as darkness
Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » That may be felt
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."
Darkness » Degrees of, mentioned » Outer or extreme
but the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to stumble
We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.
Darkness » Effects of » Cannot » See » Objects
They did not see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Darkness » The wicked » Being Full of
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
Darkness » The wicked » Live in
Darkness » Inexplicable nature of
"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?
Darkness » The lord creating darkness
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Darkness » Those that put darkness for light, and light for darkness
Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.
Darkness » Originally covered the earth
Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.
Darkness » Separated from the light
Darkness » Called night
God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. There was evening and there was morning, one day.
Darkness » The wicked » Walk in
They do not know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Darkness » There being no darkness in God
This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
Darkness » Exhibits God's power and greatness
"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,
Darkness » Often put for night
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Anything hateful
Let that day be darkness. Do not let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. read more.
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,
Darkness » The wicked » Perpetrate their designs in
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They do not know the light.
Darkness » Illustrative of » Abstruse and deep subjects
Darkness » God creates
I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Darkness » Called the swaddling band of the sea
Days » A time of judgment called a day of » Darkness
A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,
intercession » Answered » Instances of » Of moses, in behalf of pharaoh » Plague » Darkness
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Miracles » To witness to Christ as messiah spurious » Darkness
Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
Plague » Darkness
The LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Punishment of the The Wicked » Future described as » Darkness
These are wells without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved.
but the sons of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."
Spiritual » Crowns » Darkness
The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let us therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.
But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness.
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
Topics on Darkness
Coming Out Of Darkness
Isaiah 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
Darkness At The End
Matthew 24:29But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
Darkness During Daytime
Jeremiah 4:28For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not relented, neither will I turn back from it."
Darkness Of Evil
Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
Darkness, As A Symbol Of Sin
Romans 1:21Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but their thinking became nonsense, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Darkness, And God's Judgment
Matthew 25:30Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
Darkness, Deliverance From
Isaiah 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
darkness, natural
Exodus 20:18-21All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
From Darkness To Light
Isaiah 9:2The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.
Light And Darkness
Isaiah 45:7I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Outer Darkness
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness. For no man shall prevail by strength.
Overtaken By Darkness
Genesis 15:12When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.
Spiritual Darkness
John 11:10But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him."
Supernatural Darkness
Matthew 27:45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.
The Outer Darkness
1 Samuel 2:9He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness. For no man shall prevail by strength.
Walking In Darkness
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what they stumble over.
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