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Bible Verses About Darkness
Find Bible verses about darkness — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about darkness?
The Bible addresses darkness with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Matthew 6:23
“But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!”
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John 1:5
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.”
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Matthew 27:45
“Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.”
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Luke 22:53
“When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."”
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Isaiah 50:10
“Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.”
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Amos 5:20
“Won't the day of Yahweh be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?”
Zephaniah 1:15
“That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,”
Proverbs 4:19
“The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.”
John 3:19
“This 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.”
Isaiah 5:30
“They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.”
Job 3:4
“Let that day be darkness. Don't let God from above seek for it, neither let the light shine on it.”
Psalms 107:10
“Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,”
Genesis 15:12
“When the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. Now terror and great darkness fell on him.”
Ezekiel 32:8
“All the bright lights of the sky will I make dark over you, and set darkness on your land, says the Lord Yahweh.”
Luke 23:44
“It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.”
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Isaiah 8:22 — “and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven int...”
Genesis 1:2 — “Now the earth was formless and empty. Darkness was on the surface of the deep. God's Spirit was hove...”
Proverbs 2:13 — “who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;...”
Psalms 139:11 — “If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; the light around me will be night;"...”
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