47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.

But if thine eye is evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

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

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.

For every one that does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.

passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;

they shall look upon the earth and behold tribulation and gross darkness, darkness and anguish; and they shall be submerged in gross darkness.

Why was I not cut off before the darkness, neither has he covered my face with the darkness.

Zain A light has shined in the darkness upon the upright: Cheth Gracious and merciful and righteous.

In addition to this, all the days of his life he shall eat in darkness, with much wrath and pain and sorrow sickness.

And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if one looks unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

And the angels who did not keep their first estate but left their own habitation, he has reserved in eternal chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

These are wells without water, clouds that are brought by a whirlwind, to whom gross darkness is reserved for ever.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king said to the slaves, Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his fire shall be put out in obscure darkness.

He placed darkness like tabernacles round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the seat of his throne.

Then the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

And he lowered the heavens and came down, and darkness was under his feet.

Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

and to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Where is the way to the habitation of the light, and where is the place of the darkness?

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move.

Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the seat of his throne.

Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

And it came to pass on the third day when the morning came, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.

And he lowered the heavens and came down, and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and flew; and he appeared upon the wings of the wind. He placed darkness like tabernacles round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Then Solomon said, The LORD has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.

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

Teach us what we should say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion, who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion, whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;

They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths. The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face. read more.
In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness: And I myself also understood that one event happens to the one and to the other.

He that says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. He that loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world. But he who walks in the night stumbles because there is no light in him.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While ye have the Light, believe in the Light that ye may be the sons of light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and hid himself from them.

This I say, therefore, and require in the Lord that from now on ye not walk as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their own senses, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart,

This then is the promise which we have heard of him and declare unto 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 the truth;

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his word.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.

who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the throne of the beast; and its kingdom was filled with darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me; but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

For if God did not forgive the angels that sinned, but cast them down into the deepest abyss and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

These are wells without water, clouds that are brought by a whirlwind, to whom gross darkness is reserved for ever.

Then the king said to the slaves, Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

For the God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to bring forth the light of the knowledge of the clarity of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the lords of this age, rulers of this darkness, against spiritual wickedness in the heavens.

who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light, and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye from the housetops.

I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth. Not without substance did I say unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me; I am the LORD who speaks righteousness, who declares things that are right.

And it came to pass on the third day when the morning came, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud, so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of shadow that spreads itself upon the mountains as the dawn: a people great and strong; there has not ever been the like, neither shall there be any more after him, even to the years of many generations.

These words the LORD spoke unto all your congregation in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice, and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me.

He keeps the feet of his saints, and the wicked perish in darkness, for no man shall prevail by their own strength.

before I go, to not return, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

I beheld the earth, and, behold, it was without order, and empty; and the heavens, and they had no light.

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

Thou makest darkness, and it is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest move.

And it came to pass that when the sun went down and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces.

and entered into a ship and were crossing the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

But he that hates his brother is in darkness and walks in darkness and does not know where he goes, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the Light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you; for he that walks in darkness does not know where he goes.

He sent darkness and made it dark, and they did not rebel against his word.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king said to the slaves, Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

And cast ye the unprofitable slave into the outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should take you as a thief. Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Then the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched and that burned with fire nor unto blackness and darkness and tempest

For those that sleep in the night, and those that are drunken are drunken in the night.

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awaken ourselves out of sleep, for now is our saving health nearer than when we believed. The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall shine because of me. Even the darkness does not hide from thee; but the night shines as the day; the darkness is as the light.

Give glory to the LORD your God before he causes darkness and before your feet stumble in mountains of darkness, and while ye look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death and makes it gross darkness.

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken,

Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

The lamp of the body is the eye; therefore when thine eye is sincere, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore if the light which is in thee is darkness.

The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know in what they stumble.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and as if we had no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in graves as dead men.

They did not see one another, neither did any rise from his place for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

But if thine eye is evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and in irons,

Where is the way to the habitation of the light, and where is the place of the darkness? If thou shalt take it in its borders, and if thou should understand the paths to its house?

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

Woe unto those that call evil good and good evil; that put darkness for light and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

And the earth was without order, and empty; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God saw that the light was good, and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

They do not know, neither do they understand; they walk in darkness; they move all the foundations of the earth.

This then is the promise which we have heard of him and declare unto you, That God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above; neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death redeem it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. read more.
O, let that night be solitary; let no song come therein! Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning. Let the stars of its dawn be darkened; they waited for light, but have none; neither let them see the dawning of the day;

In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

He set a border unto the darkness, and unto every perfect work that he made, he placed a stone of darkness and shadow of death.

I form the light and create darkness; I make peace and create evil: I am the LORD that does all this.

When I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness a swaddling band for it,

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of shadow that spreads itself upon the mountains as the dawn: a people great and strong; there has not ever been the like, neither shall there be any more after him, even to the years of many generations.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, neither did any rise from his place for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They did not see one another, neither did any rise from his place for three days; but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

These are wells without water, clouds that are brought by a whirlwind, to whom gross darkness is reserved for ever.

But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The night is past, and the day is come; let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us clothe ourselves with the weapons of light.

But if thine eye is evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If, therefore, the light that is in thee is darkness, how great is that darkness!

For in another time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness apprehended it not.

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