38 Bible Verses about Darkness

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Ephesians 5:13

All such actions, when exposed, have their true character made manifest by the Light.

Luke 11:34

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is unclouded, your whole body, also, is lit up; but, as soon as your eye is diseased, your body, also, is darkened.

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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

and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the Great Day in everlasting chains and black darkness.

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 that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now. He who loves his Brother is always in the Light, and there is nothing within him to cause him to stumble; while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

Darkness » Those that walk in darkness

1 John 2:11

while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

John 11:9-10

"Are not there twelve hours in the day?" answered Jesus. "If a man walks about in the day-time, he does not stumble, because he can see the light of the sun; But, if he walks about at night, he stumbles, because he has not the light."

John 12:35-36

"Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you still have the Light, believe in the Light, that you may be 'Sons of Light.'" After he had said this, Jesus went away, and hid himself from them.

Ephesians 4:17-18

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live, With their powers of discernment darkened, cut off from the Life of God, owing to the ignorance that prevails among them and to the hardness of their hearts.

1 John 1:5-6

These, then, are the Tidings that we have heard from him and now tell you-- 'God is Light, and Darkness has no place at all in him.' If we say that we have communion with him, and yet continue to live in the Darkness, we lie, and are not living the Truth.

Darkness » Supernatural

Darkness » Figurative » power of darkness,

Revelation 16:10

Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl upon the throne of the Beast; and darkness fell upon its Kingdom. Men gnawed their tongues for pain,

Luke 22:53

When I was with you day after day in the Temple Courts, you did not lay hands on me; but now your time has come, and the 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

Darkness » Miraculous » On mount sinai

Hebrews 12:18

It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,

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

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

Darkness » Effects of » Causes us to go astray

1 John 2:11

while he who hates his Brother is in the Darkness, and is living in the Darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the Darkness prevents his seeing.

John 12:35

"Only a little while longer," answered Jesus, "will you have the Light among you. Travel on while you have the Light, so that darkness may not overtake you; he who travels 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

You, however, Brothers, are not in darkness, that the daylight should take you by surprise as if you were thieves. For you all are 'Sons of Light' and 'Sons of the Day.' We have nothing to do with night, or darkness.

Darkness » The wicked » The children of

Darkness » Miraculous » At mount sinai

Hebrews 12:18

It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,

Darkness » What happens 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

This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our Salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the Faith. The night is almost gone; the day is near. Therefore let us have done with the deeds of Darkness, and arm ourselves with the weapons 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 unclouded, your whole body, also, is lit up; but, as soon as your eye is diseased, your body, also, is darkened. Take care, therefore, that the inner Light is not 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

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

darkness, natural

Hebrews 12:18-21

It is not to tangible 'flaming fire' that you have drawn near, nor to 'gloom, and darkness, and storm,

Overtaken By Darkness

Acts 13:11

The hand of the Lord is upon you even now, and you will be blind for a time and unable to see the sun." Immediately a mist and darkness fell upon him, and he went feeling about for some one to guide him.

Spiritual Darkness

John 11:10

But, if he walks about at night, he stumbles, because he has not the light."

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