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Bible Verses about โ€œdarknessโ€

The Bible contains 21 verses about darkness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.

Ephesians 6:12
746 votes

โ€œFor 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.โ€

Ephesians 5:11
366 votes

โ€œHave no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.โ€

1 Peter 2:9
342 votes

โ€œBut 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:โ€

Genesis 1:2
318 votes

โ€œNow 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.โ€

Ephesians 5:8
229 votes

โ€œFor you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,โ€

John 8:12
163 votes

โ€œAgain, 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."โ€

1 John 1:7
134 votes

โ€œBut 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.โ€

John 3:19
131 votes

โ€œThis 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.โ€

John 3:20
121 votes

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

John 3:21
109 votes

โ€œBut he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God."โ€

John 1:5
107 votes

โ€œThe light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.โ€

Matthew 4:16
94 votes

โ€œthe 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."โ€

Psalms 139:12
93 votes

โ€œeven the darkness doesn't hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you.โ€

Colossians 1:13
49 votes

โ€œwho delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;โ€

1 John 1:5
43 votes

โ€œThis 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.โ€

John 11:10
30 votes

โ€œBut if a man walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light isn't in him."โ€

1 Thessalonians 5:5
27 votes

โ€œYou are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,โ€

1 John 1:6
25 votes

โ€œIf we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don't tell the truth.โ€

Isaiah 9:2
16 votes

โ€œThe 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.โ€

Acts 26:18
14 votes

โ€œto 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.'โ€

Luke 1:79
9 votes

โ€œto shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace."โ€

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