Job 38:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 “Where is the way to the dwelling of light,
and where is the place of darkness,
Ezekiel 32:8
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
8 All the shining lights of the heavens
I will darken above you
and put darkness on your land,
says the Lord God.
John 8:12
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Jesus the Light of the World
12 Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.”(A)
Read full chapter
John 1:9
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
9 The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world.[a](A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 1.9 Or He was the true light that enlightens everyone coming into the world
Matthew 27:45
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Death of Jesus
45 From noon on, darkness came over the whole land[a] until three in the afternoon.(A)
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 27.45 Or earth
Amos 4:13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
13 For the one who forms the mountains, creates the wind,
reveals his thoughts to mortals,
makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!(A)
Jeremiah 13:16
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
16 Give glory to the Lord your God
before he brings darkness
and before your feet stumble
on the mountains at twilight;
while you look for light,
he turns it into gloom
and makes it deep darkness.(A)
Isaiah 45:7
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
7 I form light and create darkness,
I make weal and create woe;
I the Lord do all these things.(A)
Psalm 105:28
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Footnotes
- 105.28 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb they did not rebel
Psalm 104:20
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
20 You make darkness, and it is night,
when all the animals of the forest come creeping out.(A)
Psalm 18:11
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
11 He made darkness his covering around him,
his canopy thick clouds dark with water.(A)
Job 38:12-13
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
12 “Have you commanded the morning since your days began
and caused the dawn to know its place,(A)
13 so that it might take hold of the skirts of the earth,
and the wicked be shaken out of it?(B)
Deuteronomy 4:19
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
19 And when you look up to the heavens and see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host of heaven, do not be led astray and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples everywhere under heaven.(A)
Read full chapter
Genesis 1:14-18
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years,(A) 15 and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.(B) 17 God set them in the dome of the sky to give light upon the earth, 18 to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.(C)
Read full chapter
Genesis 1:3-4
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.(A) 4 And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness.(B)
Read full chapterNew Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.