What Does the Bible Say About Children Of Darkness?

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

(for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true),

John 8:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.”

Revelation 3:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: ‘The words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars. “‘I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead. Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete in the sight of my God. Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you. Yet you have still a few names in Sardis, people who have not soiled their garments, and they will walk with me in white, for they are worthy. The one who conquers will be clothed thus in white garments, and I will never blot his name out of the book of life. I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels. ...

Jude 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

2 Peter 2:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Psalm 80:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;

Revelation 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

Revelation 10:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire. He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land, and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded. And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down.” And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven ...

2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—

2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 12:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

John 10:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.

John 6:63 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Matthew 23:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.

Matthew 13:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let both grow together until the harvest, and at harvest time I will tell the reapers, “Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

Matthew 13:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given.

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 3 helpful votes

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...

Matthew 12:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

Matthew 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.

Malachi 4:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch. But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall. And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts. “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel. “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. ...

Lamentations 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of his wrath; he has driven and brought me into darkness without any light; surely against me he turns his hand again and again the whole day long. He has made my flesh and my skin waste away; he has broken my bones; he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation; ...

Isaiah 56:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord. ...

Song of Solomon 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The wicked are estranged from the womb; they go astray from birth, speaking lies.

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” ...

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

Isaiah 50:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the voice of his servant? Let him who walks in darkness and has no light trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who equip yourselves with burning torches! Walk by the light of your fire, and by the torches that you have kindled! This you have from my hand: you shall lie down in torment.

49 Bible Verses about Children Of Darkness

Ephesians 5:8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:44 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 11:30 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 3:1-22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 80:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 18:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 13:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 10:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Philippians 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 12:46 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 10:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:63 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 12:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 5:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 4:1-6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Lamentations 3:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 56:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Song of Solomon 5:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 58:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 3:1-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 19:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 50:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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