47 Bible Verses about Darkness

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

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

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

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Angels who didn't keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

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

He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

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

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place,

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

Clouds and darkness are around him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind. He made darkness pavilions around himself: gathering of waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

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

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

Teach us what we shall tell him, for we can't make our case by reason of darkness.

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things; who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; read more.
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil; who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths. The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face. read more.
In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness -- and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now. He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him. But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus answered, "Aren't there twelve hours of daylight? If a man walks in the day, he doesn't stumble, because he sees the light of this world. But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light." Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce 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 the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.

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

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

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

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

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was darkened. They gnawed their tongues because of the pain,

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

For if God didn't spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved for judgment;

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters. God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

It happened on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain, and the sound of an exceedingly loud trumpet; and all the people who were in the camp trembled.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly on 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. He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.

He will keep the feet of his holy ones, but the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; for no man shall prevail by strength.

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

I saw the earth, and, behold, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl.

It came to pass that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking furnace, and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.

and they entered into the boat, and were going over the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

He sent darkness, and made it dark. They didn't rebel against his words.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Then the king said to the servants, 'Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and throw him into the outer darkness; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.'

Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm,

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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

When the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;" even the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Give glory to Yahweh 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, and makes it gross darkness.

When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.

But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;

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

The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore see whether the light that is in you isn't darkness.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt."

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

"What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is its place, that you should take it to its bound, that you should discern the paths to its house?

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does 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!

Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hovering over the surface of the waters.

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

God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was evening and there was morning, one day.

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

This is the message which we have heard from him and announce 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 from the womb, when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

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

Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it. Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it. As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months. read more.
Behold, let that night be barren. Let no joyful voice come therein. Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan. Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

Man sets an end to darkness, and searches out, to the furthest bound, the stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

when I made clouds its garment, and wrapped it in thick darkness,

A day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, a great and strong people; there has never been the like, neither will there be any more after them, even to the years of many generations.

That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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

Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt." Moses stretched forth his hand toward the sky, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. They didn't see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

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

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

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.

This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.