Top 25 Bible Verses About Darkness (ESV)

5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 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 his Son cleanses us from all sin.

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

12   even the darkness is not dark to you;
    the night is bright as the day,
    for darkness is as light with you.

10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

79   to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
    to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. 21 But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.”

5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

8 for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,

11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

8 At the same time, it is a new commandment that I am writing to you, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining. 9 Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness. 10 Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling. 11 But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

2    The people who walked in darkness
    have seen a great light;
  those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,
    on them has light shone.

28   For it is you who light my lamp;
    the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

12 The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

12 Then Solomon said, “The LORD has said that he would dwell in thick darkness.

2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

6 For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.