'Dark' in the Bible

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!

But the sons of the kingdom will be put out into the dark, and there will be weeping and cries of pain.

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.

Then the king said to the servants, Put cords round his hands and feet and put him out into the dark; there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

But straight away, after the trouble of those days, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light and the stars will come down from heaven and the powers of heaven will be moved:

And put out the servant who is of no profit into the outer dark: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.

Now from the sixth hour it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

But in those days, after that time of trouble, the sun will be made dark and the moon will not give her light,

And when the sixth hour had come, it was dark over all the land till the ninth hour.

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

The light of the body is the eye: when your eye is true, all your body is full of light; but when it is evil, your body is dark.

So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.

So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.

When I was in the Temple with you every day, your hands were not stretched out against me: but this is your hour, and the authority of the dark power.

And it was now about the sixth hour; and all the land was dark till the ninth hour;

And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

Jesus said to them, For a little time longer the light will be among you; while you have the light go on walking in it, so that the dark may not overtake you: one walking in the dark has no knowledge of where he is going.

I have come as a light into the world, so that no one who has faith in me will go on living in the dark.

Now on the first day of the week, very early, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the place and saw that the stone had been taken away from it.

The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:

And now, see, the hand of the Lord is on you, and you will be blind and not able to see the sun for a time. And straight away a dark mist came down on him; and he went about looking for a guide.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,

Let their eyes be made dark so that they may not see, and let their back be bent down at all times.

The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

For this reason let there be no judging before the time, till the Lord comes, who will make clear the secret things of the dark, and the designs of the heart; and then will every man have his praise from God.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark?

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

For our fight is not against flesh and blood, but against authorities and powers, against the world-rulers of this dark night, against the spirits of evil in the heavens.

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

You have not come to a mountain which may be touched, and is burning with fire, and to a black cloud, and a dark smoke, and a violent wind,

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

And so the words of the prophets are made more certain; and it is well for you to give attention to them as to a light shining in a dark place, till the dawn comes and the morning star is seen in your hearts;

This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

If we say we are joined to him, and are walking still in the dark, our words are false and our acts are untrue:

He who says that he is in the light, and has hate in his heart for his brother, is still in the dark.

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

And the angels who did not keep to their kingdom but went out from the place which was theirs, he has put in eternal chains and in dark night till the great day of the judging.

And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.

And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.

And the fifth let what was in his vessel come out on the high seat of the beast; and his kingdom was made dark; and they were biting their tongues for pain.