38 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and cast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among the sanctified by faith in me.

And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.

He that says he is in the light, and hates his brother, is in darkness till now. He that loves his brother continues in the light, and there is no offense in him; but he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, and knows not where he goes, because the 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 the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of the day? and if one walks in the day he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world; but if he walks in the night he stumbles, because the light is not in it.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be children of light. Jesus said these things, and went away and concealed himself from them.

This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and observe not the truth;

And from the sixth hour there was darkness on all the land till the ninth hour;

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

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

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

for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

And the fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast; and his kingdom was darkened, and they gnawed their tongues from painful labor,

When I was daily with you in the temple you stretched not out your hands upon me but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and cast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

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

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].

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

and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light, and what you hear in the ear, preach on the house-tops.

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest

and entering into the ship were crossing the lake to 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 knows not where he goes, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you; walk while you have the light, that darkness may not overtake you; for he that walks in darkness knows not where he goes.

but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then the king said to the servants, Bind his feet and hands, and cast him into the darkness outside. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

and cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief; for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and to a burning fire, and blackness and darkness and a tempest

For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night;

And from the sixth hour there was darkness on all the land till the ninth hour;

And when it was the sixth hour, there was darkness over all the earth till the ninth hour.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour that we should be waked from sleep, for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

And immediately after the affliction of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

And from the sixth hour there was darkness on all the land till the ninth hour;

The light of the body is the eye; when, therefore, your eye is sound, your whole body is light; but when your eye is evil, your whole body is dark. See, therefore, that the light which is in you be not darkness.

but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

And this is the message which we have heard from him and declare to you, That God is light, and with him there is no darkness.

These are fountains without water, clouds driven by a tempest, to which is reserved the blackness of darkness.

but the children of the kingdom shall be cast into the darkness outside; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The night is far advanced, and the day is at hand; let us lay aside therefore the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

but if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. If, therefore, the light which is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

and the light shone in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

And this is the judgment; that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than the light, because their deeds are evil.