16 Bible Verses about Outer Darkness

“He keeps the feet of His godly ones,
But the wicked ones are silenced in darkness;
For not by might shall a man prevail.

Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into the outer darkness; in that place 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; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

Throw out the worthless slave into the outer darkness; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

These are springs without water and mists driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved.

wild waves of the sea, casting up their own shame like foam; wandering stars, for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever.

The land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
Of deep shadow without order,
And which shines as the darkness.”

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’
He knows that a day of darkness is at hand.

“He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,
And unfanned fire will devour him;
It will consume the survivor in his tent.

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

And angels who did not keep their own domain, but abandoned their proper abode, He has kept in eternal bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day,

Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain,

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment;