The best Bible verses for darkness (NLT) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for darkness (NLT), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud — frustrated, discouraged, and angry."Ecclesiastes 5:17
"Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud — frustrated, discouraged, and angry."Ecclesiastes 5:17
"His birth would have been meaningless, and he would have ended in darkness. He wouldn’t even have had a name,"Ecclesiastes 6:4
"When people live to be very old, let them rejoice in every day of life. But let them also remember there will be many dark days. Everything still to come is meaningless."Ecclesiastes 11:8
"For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!"Ephesians 5:8
"You have not come to a physical mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at Mount Sinai."Hebrews 12:18
"What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter."Isaiah 5:20
"They will roar over their victims on that day of destruction like the roaring of the sea. If someone looks across the land, only darkness and distress will be seen; even the light will be darkened by clouds."Isaiah 5:30
"and down at the earth, but wherever they look, there will be trouble and anguish and dark despair. They will be thrown out into the darkness."Isaiah 8:22
"The people who walk in darkness will see a great light. For those who live in a land of deep darkness, a light will shine."Isaiah 9:2
"What sorrow awaits those who try to hide their plans from the LORD, who do their evil deeds in the dark! “The LORD can’t see us,” they say. “He doesn’t know what’s going on!”"Isaiah 29:15
"In that day the deaf will hear words read from a book, and the blind will see through the gloom and darkness."Isaiah 29:18
"You will open the eyes of the blind. You will free the captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons."Isaiah 42:7
"And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness — secret riches. I will do this so you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name."Isaiah 45:3
"I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things."Isaiah 45:7
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for darkness (NLT) are Ecclesiastes 5:17, Ecclesiastes 6:4, Ecclesiastes 11:8. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to darkness (NLT) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for darkness (NLT), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.