47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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

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

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather 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 far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is 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 to the land; and behold, trouble and darkness and gloom of anguish! And they are driven away into darkness.

because I was not cut off before the darkness; yea, He covered the darkness from my face.

To the upright there arises light in the darkness; he is gracious and full of pity and righteousness.

Also all his days 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 one looks to the land, behold darkness, and lo, darkness! Distress! And the light shall be darkened by its clouds.

And those angels not having kept their first place, but having deserted their dwelling-place, He has kept in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of a great Day;

These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

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 servants, Bind him hand and foot and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in deep darkness.

And He made darkness coverings around Him, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies.

Clouds and darkness are all around Him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne.

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

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. And darkness was under His feet.

And Solomon said, Jehovah said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

and to rule over the day and over the night; and to divide between the light and 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 where is the place of darkness,

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

Clouds and darkness are all around Him; righteousness and judgment are the foundation of His throne.

And Solomon said, Jehovah said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people 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 coverings around Him, dark waters, thick clouds of the skies.

And Solomon said, Jehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

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

Teach us what we shall say to Him; for because of darkness we cannot arrange our case.

For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah shall rise on you, and His glory shall be seen on you.

judgment shall keep you, understanding shall keep you, to deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man who speaks wicked things; those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, read more.
who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perversities of the wicked; whose ways are crooked, and are devious in their paths.

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths. The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night he is a thief. And the eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a covering on 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's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness; and I also knew that one event happens to all of them.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in darkness until now. He who loves his brother abides in the light, and there is no offense in him. But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has 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 the world. But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles because there is no light in him.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who walks in darkness does not know where he goes. While you have the Light, believe in the Light so that you may become sons of Light. Jesus spoke these things and departed and was hidden from them.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations 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.

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 practice 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.

And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

And when He had opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For He has delivered us from the power of darkness and has translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son;

You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

And the fifth angel poured out his vial on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom became darkened. And they gnawed their tongues from the pain.

When I was with you in the temple daily, you did not stretch out your hand on Me. But this is your hour, and the authority of the darkness.

For if God did not spare sinning angels, but thrust them down into Tartarus, and delivered them into chains of darkness, being reserved to judgment.

These are wells without water, clouds driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

Then the king said 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 it is God who said, "Out of darkness Light shall shine;" who shone in our hearts to give the brightness of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

For He 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.

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

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear, proclaim on the housetops.

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain. I Jehovah speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

And it happened on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mountain. And the voice of the trumpet was exceedingly loud, so that all the people in the camp trembled.

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains; a great people and a strong people; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there ever be again, even to the years of many generations.

Jehovah spoke these words to all your assembly in the mountain 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 tablets of stone and delivered them to me.

He keeps the feet of his saints, and the wicked are silenced in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.

before I go, and I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of obscurity, the darkness of the shadow of death, without any order, and the shining is as darkness.

When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band,

And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

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

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

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

And it happened, the sun went down, and it was dark and behold, a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp passed between those pieces.

and entered into a boat, and went over the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

But he who hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and does not know where he is going, because darkness has blinded his eyes.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while the Light is with you. Walk while you have the Light, lest darkness come upon you. For he who 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 Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness. 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 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 throw the unprofitable servant into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you like a thief. You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

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

For you have not come to the mountain that might be touched and that burned with fire, nor to blackness and darkness and tempest,

For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.

And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

And it being the sixth hour, darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness. And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven. And there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

This also, knowing the time, that it is already time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand; therefore let us 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 around me. Yea, the darkness does not hide from You; but the night shines as the day; as is the darkness, so is the light to You.

Give glory to Jehovah your God, before He causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, He turns it into the shadow of death, setting up deep gloom.

And it happened as the sun was setting, and a deep sleep fell upon Abram. And, behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him!

And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall 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.

And from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

The light 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. Therefore take heed that the light in you is not darkness.

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

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness.

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 we grope as if we had no eyes. We stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in deserted places like dead men.

They did not see one another, nor did any rise from his place, for three days. But all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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

Those who sit in the darkness and in the shadow of death, being chained in affliction and iron;

Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness, that you should take it to its boundary, and that you should know the paths to its house?

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness.

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

They neither know nor will understand; they walk on in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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.

Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as it came from the womb? When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band,

nor for the plague that walks in darkness, of the destruction laying waste at noonday.

Let that day be darkness. Let not God look upon it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim 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 barren; let no joyful voice come in it. Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to stir up Leviathan. Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none. Let it not see the eyelids of the dawn.

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

He sets an end to darkness, and to every extremity He searches out the stones of darkness and the shadow of death.

forming the light and creating darkness; making peace and creating evil. I Jehovah do all these things.

When I made the clouds its robe, and darkness its navel-band,

a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread on the mountains; a great people and a strong people; there has not been ever the like, nor shall there ever be again, even to the years of many generations.

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

And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness. 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, nor 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 Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand toward the heavens, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, so that one may even feel the darkness. 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, nor 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 driven with a tempest, for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever.

But the sons 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; therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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

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

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overtake it.

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