Bible Verses About Secrecy

For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested; neither was any thing kept secret, but that it should come abroad.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.

And he charged them that they should tell no man of him.

And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.

A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;

And charged them that they should not make him known:

Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straitly charged them, saying, See that no man know it.

That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.

But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up unto the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

And when the voice was past, Jesus was found alone. And they kept it close, and told no man in those days any of those things which they had seen.

Howbeit no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?