38 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

And angels, who did not preserve their original rank but left their proper home, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness, for the day of judgment,

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven by the storm, and they are doomed to densest darkness.

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness on the outside, where he will have to weep and grind his teeth.'

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's power to God, so as to have their sins forgiven and have a possession among those that are consecrated by faith in me.'

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

Whoever claims to be in the light, and yet continues to hate his brother is still in darkness. Whoever continues to love his brother is always in the light, and he is no hindrance to others. But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, "Does not the day have twelve hours? If a man travels in the daytime, he does not stumble, for he can see the light of this world; but if he travels in the nighttime, he does stumble, because he has no light."

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going. While you have the light believe in the light, that you may become sons of light." On saying this Jesus went away and hid Himself.

So I mean this and now testify to it in the name of the Lord: You must now stop living as the heathen usually do, in the frivolity of their minds, with darkened understanding, estranged from the life of God because of the ignorance that exists among them and because of the stubbornness of their hearts;

And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him. If we say "We have fellowship with Him," and yet live in darkness, we are lying and not practicing the truth.

Now from twelve o'clock till three, darkness covered the whole land.

When He broke the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun turned black as sackcloth, and the full moon became like blood,

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl upon the throne of the wild beast, and his kingdom was shrouded in darkness, and men in agony gnawed their tongues,

While I was among you day after day in the temple, you never laid a hand on me! But this is your opportunity, even the power which darkness gives you!"

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but hurled them down to Tartarus and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven by the storm, and they are doomed to densest darkness.

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness on the outside, where he will have to weep and grind his teeth.'

For God who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in my heart, to give me the light of the knowledge of God's glory, reflected on the face of Christ.

For our contest is not with human foes alone, but with the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this dark world; that is, with the spirit-forces of evil challenging us in the heavenly contest.

It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

Stop having anything to do with the profitless doings of darkness; instead you must continue to expose them.

What I speak to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ears, you must proclaim from housetops.

For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm

and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

But whoever continues to hate his brother is in darkness and is living in darkness, and he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus said to them, "Only a little while longer you will have the light. Keep on living by it while you have the light, so that darkness may not overtake you, for whoever walks about in the dark does not know where he is going.

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

Then the king said to his attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness on the outside, where he will have to weep and grind his teeth.'

And throw the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness on the outside, where he will weep and grind his teeth.'

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that that day, like a thief, should take you by surprise; for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

for you are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.

For you have not come to a blazing fire that can be touched, to gloom and darkness, storm

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

Now from twelve o'clock till three, darkness covered the whole land.

At twelve o'clock darkness covered the whole land and lasted until three in the afternoon.

Do this in particular because you know the present crisis, that it is high time for you to wake up out of your sleep, for our salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

"And immediately after the misery of those days, the sun will turn dark, the moon will not shed its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the sky will be shaken.

Now from twelve o'clock till three, darkness covered the whole land.

Your eye is the very lamp of your body. When your eye is sound, your whole body is full of light. But if your eye is unsound, your body is full of darkness. So be on your guard that the very source of light in you is not darkness.

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

And this is the message that we have heard from Him and now announce to you: God is light, and there is no darkness at all in Him.

Such men are dried-up springs, clouds driven by the storm, and they are doomed to densest darkness.

while the heirs of the kingdom will be turned out into the darkness outside, where they will be weeping and grinding their teeth."

The night has almost passed; the day is at hand. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness, and put on the weapons of light.

But if your eye is unsound, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the very source of light in you is darkness, how dense is that darkness!

For at one time you were darkness itself, but now in union with the Lord you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.