Top 25 Bible Verses About Darkness (NIV)

⁵ The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

¹⁸ to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so 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 declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. ⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by 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, purifies us from all sin.

¹² When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

¹⁰ It is when he walks by night that he stumbles, for he has no light."

⁷⁹ to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace."

¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

⁵ You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

⁸ For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light

¹³ For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,

¹¹ Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

¹⁴ Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

⁸ Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining. ⁹ Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. ¹⁰ Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble. ¹¹ But whoever hates his brother is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness; he does not know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded him.

¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

⁵ This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.

² The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned.

²⁸ You, O LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.

⁹ But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

⁶ If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.

¹² But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

¹² The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.

¹² Then Solomon said, "The LORD has said that he would dwell in a dark cloud;

² Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

⁶ For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.