47 Bible Verses about Darkness

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 your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!

For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.

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

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

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.

For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and 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:

And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they shall be driven into darkness.

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

Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his 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 its heavens.

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

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

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

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

Whosoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in utter darkness.

And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the habitation of his throne.

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

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet.

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

And the earth was without form, and void; 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 rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and justice are the habitation of his throne.

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

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

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame 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 forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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

Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech because of darkness.

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

Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you: To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks perverse things; Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; read more.
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of the wicked; Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. The eye also 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 know not the light.

The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one fate happens to them all.

He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness even until now. 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 knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walks in the day, he stumbles not, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.

Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes. While you have light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things spoke Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 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 message 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 rebelled not against his word.

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

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, 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 rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

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

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

And the fifth angel poured out his bowl upon the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain,

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

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

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

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

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

And the earth was without form, and void; 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 rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.

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 in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach upon the housetops.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the descendants of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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

For you 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 thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, through the years of many generations.

These words the LORD spoke unto all your assembly 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 will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

Before I go where I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A 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 its swaddling band,

And the earth was without form, and void; 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, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.

You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

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 went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus was not come to them.

But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because that darkness has blinded his eyes.

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

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out your 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 children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

And cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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

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

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunk are drunk 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 your 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 awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. 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.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while you 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, lo, 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 its light, and the stars shall fall from 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 your eye is sound, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Take heed therefore that the light which is in you be not darkness.

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

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

But the children 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 we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; we are in desolate places as dead men.

They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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

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

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place, That you should take it to its domain, and that you should know the paths to its home?

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.

Woe unto them 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 form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

And God saw the light, that it 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 know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

This then is the message 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 its swaddling band,

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 stain 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 rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months. read more.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come into it. Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to arouse leviathan. Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

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

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out all recesses for ore in darkness, and the shadow of death.

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.

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

A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great and strong people; there has not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, through the years of many generations.

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

And the LORD said unto Moses, Stretch out your 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 saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children 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 your 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 saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever.

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

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 your eye be evil, your whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness!

For you were once darkness, but now are you light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

And the light shines in darkness; and the darkness overcame it not.

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