16 Bible Verses about Spiritual Darkness

But if a man walketh in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

The night is far spent, 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 thy eye be evil, thy whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shades of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Therefore night shall be to you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark to you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

The people who sat in darkness, saw great light; and to them who sat in the region and shades of death, light hath arisen.

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

Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

And thou shalt grope at noon-day, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.

Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son:

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them.