16 Bible Verses about Outer Darkness

He guards the steps of His faithful ones,
but the wicked perish in darkness,
for a man does not prevail by his own strength.

They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

And throw this good-for-nothing slave into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

These people are springs without water, mists driven by a whirlwind. The gloom of darkness has been reserved for them.

wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars for whom the blackness of darkness is reserved forever!

It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like the darkness.”

He wanders about for food, saying, “Where is it?”
He knows the day of darkness is at hand.

He is driven from light to darkness
and chased from the inhabited world.

Total darkness is reserved for his treasures.
A fire unfanned by human hands will consume him;
it will feed on what is left in his tent.

He will not escape from the darkness;
flames will wither his shoots,
and by the breath of God’s mouth, he will depart.

and He has kept, with eternal chains in darkness for the judgment of the great day, the angels who did not keep their own position but deserted their proper dwelling.

The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues because of their pain

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;