16 Bible Verses about Spiritual Darkness

But if a man walk in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

The night is far along and the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

But if your eye is wicked, your body will be in darkness. If that light in you is really darkness, how great a darkness it must be.

His light shines through darkness and it cannot be extinguished.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world. People loved the darkness rather than the light for their works were evil.

The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).

Therefore you will have night. You will have no vision! It will be dark to you. You will not perform divination. The sun will go down on the prophets and they will be in the dark.

You do not live in the dark. That day should not overtake you by surprise as a thief would.

the people sitting in darkness saw a great light. Light rose upon those sitting in a region of deathly shadow.

This is the message we heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world. He that follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.

that even in bright sunshine you will have to feel your way around like a blind person. You will tell day from night! For the rest of your life, people will beat and rob you. No one will be able to stop them.

They meet in darkness in the daytime! In bright sunlight they grope as if it were night.

He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love (the Son he dearly loves).

The god of this age (world) (religious, social, political, and economic arrangement) has blinded the minds of unbelievers that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine on them.