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Bible Verses About Darkness

This collection includes 50 passages about Darkness. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?

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For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

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But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

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If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.

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All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

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Then said Solomon, The Lord hath said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

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Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

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Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

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Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

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And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

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And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

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The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

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But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.

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For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

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The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

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He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

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All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

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Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

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Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

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But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

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There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.

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And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.

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For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

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A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

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And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

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For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.

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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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He setteth an end to darkness, and searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow of death.

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He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

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He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

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He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

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Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

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This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

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And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.

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