DARKNESS

Passages on this topic · 80

• Genesis 1:2

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

• Genesis 1:5

  God called the light “day”, and the darkness he called “night”. There was evening and there was morning, the first day.

• Exodus 10:21

  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.”

• Exodus 10:22

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

• Exodus 19:16

  On the third day, when it was morning, 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.

• Exodus 20:21

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

• 2 Samuel 22:10

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

• 2 Samuel 22:11

  He rode on a cherub, and flew. Yes, he was seen on the wings of the wind.

• 2 Samuel 22:12

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

• 1 Kings 8:12

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

• 2 Chronicles 6:1

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

• Job 38:9

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

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his pavilion around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

• Psalms 97:2

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

• Psalms 105:28

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

• Proverbs 20:20

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

• Isaiah 8:22

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

• Isaiah 9:2

  The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who lived in the land of the shadow of death, on them the light has shined.

• Isaiah 13:10

  For the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened in its going out, and the moon will not cause its light to shine.

• Isaiah 42:16

  I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

• Isaiah 45:7

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

• Isaiah 50:10

  Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.

• Jeremiah 4:23

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

• Jeremiah 4:28

  For this the earth will mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and I have not repented, neither will I turn back from it.”

• Jeremiah 13:16

  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.

• Lamentations 3:2

  He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

• Ezekiel 32:7

  When I shall extinguish you, I will cover the heavens, and make its stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

• Ezekiel 32:8

  I will make all the bright lights of the sky dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.

• Joel 2:2

  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.

• Joel 2:10

  The earth quakes before them. The heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining.

• Amos 4:13

  For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”

• Amos 5:18

  “Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh! Why do you long for the day of Yahweh? It is darkness, and not light.

• Amos 5:20

  Won’t the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

• Amos 8:9

  It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

• Micah 7:8

  Don’t rejoice against me, my enemy. When I fall, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, Yahweh will be a light to me.

• Matthew 4:16

  the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

• Matthew 6:22

  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light.

• Matthew 6:23

  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!

• Matthew 8:12

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

• Matthew 22:13

  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.’

• Matthew 24:29

  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;

• Matthew 25:30

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

• Matthew 27:45

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

• Mark 13:24

  But in those days, after that oppression, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light,

• Mark 15:33

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

• Luke 1:79

  to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

• Luke 22:53

  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.”

• Luke 23:45

  The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two.

• John 1:5

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

• John 3:19

  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.

• John 3:20

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

• John 3:21

  But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.”

• John 8:12

  Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

• John 11:9

  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.

• John 11:10

  But if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn’t in him.”

• Acts 26:18

  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.’

• Romans 1:21

  Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Romans 13:12

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

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• 1 Corinthians 4:5

  Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

• 2 Corinthians 4:6

  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.

• 2 Corinthians 6:14

  Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

• Ephesians 5:8

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

• Ephesians 5:11

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

• Ephesians 6:12

  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.

• Colossians 1:13

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

• 1 Thessalonians 5:4

  But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:5

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

• Hebrews 12:18

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

• 1 Peter 2:9

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

• 1 John 1:5

  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.

• 1 John 1:6

  If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth.

• 1 John 1:7

  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

• 1 John 2:8

  Again, I write a new commandment to you, which is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.

• 1 John 2:9

  He who says he is in the light and hates his brother, is in the darkness even until now.

• 1 John 2:10

  He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

• 1 John 2:11

  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.

• Revelation 8:12

  The fourth angel sounded, and one third of the sun was struck, and one third of the moon, and one third of the stars; so that one third of them would be darkened, and the day wouldn’t shine for one third of it, and the night in the same way.

• Revelation 9:2

  He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.

• Revelation 16:10

  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,