Topic

Darkness

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John 1:5

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

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.’

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.”

1 John 1:5–7

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. — read the full passage →

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.”

Ephesians 5:8

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

John 11:10

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

Psalms 139:12

even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.

Colossians 1:13

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

John 3:19–21

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. — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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.

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 Thessalonians 5:5

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

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:

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.”

Ephesians 5:11

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

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?

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.

1 John 2:8–11

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. — read the full passage →

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.

Psalms 18:11

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

Psalms 18:28

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

Exodus 10:21–23

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.” — read the full passage →

Romans 13:12

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.

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.”

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 Kings 8:12

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

Isaiah 45:7

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

Luke 12:3

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Proverbs 4:19

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

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 25:30

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

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.”

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.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who 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.

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.

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.’

Isaiah 5:20

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!

Exodus 20:21

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

John 12:46

I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.

John 12:35

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.

Matthew 5:16

Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Psalms 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

Psalms 82:5

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

Isaiah 8:22

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

2 Peter 2:4

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;

2 Corinthians 4:4

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

Exodus 10:22

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

John 9:5

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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.

Psalms 139:11–12

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night”; — read the full passage →

Mark 15:33

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

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.

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.

Genesis 1:5

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

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,

John 3:19–20

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. — read the full passage →

Psalms 88:12

Are your wonders made known in the dark? Or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Jude 1:13

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

Genesis 1:4

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

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.

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,

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.”

Matthew 27:45

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

Matthew 6:22–23

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

Genesis 1:1–31

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

Isaiah 60:1–2

“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory is risen on you. — read the full passage →

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.

Psalms 107:10

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

Ephesians 5:14

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

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;

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.

Proverbs 20:20

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

1 John 2:9

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

1 Thessalonians 5:4

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

Matthew 5:14–16

You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden. — read the full passage →

Psalms 104:20

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

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

Psalms 27:1

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

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.”

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.

Job 38:9

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

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.

Psalms 119:130

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Genesis 1:2–4

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. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 2:13

Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels darkness.

John 12:35–36

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. — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 2:9

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.

Lamentations 3:2

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

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.

Amos 5:20

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

John 12:36

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.

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.”

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.

Isaiah 42:3

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a dimly burning wick. He will faithfully bring justice.

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.”

Psalms 105:28

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

Mark 13:24

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

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