16 Bible Verses about Darkness, As A Symbol Of Sin
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Because, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but fell into folly in their thoughts, and their heart without understanding was darkened:
but if thine eye be wicked, thy whole body will be dark. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great the darkness!
When I was day by day with you in the temple ye did not stretch out your hands against me; but this is your hour and the power of darkness.
And this is the judgment, that light is come into the world, and men have loved darkness rather than light; for their works were evil. For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light that his works may not be shewn as they are;
The night is far spent, and the day is near; let us cast away therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,
And this 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. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not practise the truth.
in whom the god of this world has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the radiancy of the glad tidings of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine forth for them.
being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,
They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
Jesus therefore said to them, Yet a little while is the light amongst you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness may not overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.
But he that hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived. That day let it be darkness, let not +God care for it from above, neither let light shine upon it: Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it; let clouds dwell upon it; let darkeners of the day terrify it.read more.
That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.
For thou art my lamp, Jehovah; And Jehovah enlighteneth my darkness.
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