22 Bible Verses about Acting In Secret

For it is shameful even to speak [about] the things being [done] by them in secret,

The {Israelites} secretly did things which [were] not right, against Yahweh their God; they built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower up to the fortified city.

And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel [are] doing in the dark, each in the inner rooms of his idol, for [they are] saying, 'Yahweh [is] not seeing us; Yahweh has abandoned the land.'"

"Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant."

{who sit} in graves and spend the night in {secret places}, {who eat} the flesh of swine with a fragment of impurity [in] their vessels,

They encourage themselves [in the] evil matter. They talk of secretly laying snares. They say, "Who will see them?"

The angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak that [was] at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash [the] Abiezrite; and Gideon his son [was] threshing wheat in the winepress to hide [it] from the Midianites.

and [even] concerning her afterbirth {that goes out} from between her feet and [also] concerning her children that she bears, because she eats them for lack of anything in secret {during the siege and during the distress} that your enemy inflicts upon her in your {towns}.

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Acacia Grove [as] spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and entered the house of a prostitute whose name [was] Rahab, and {spent the night} there.

Though you did this in secret, I will do this thing before all of Israel {in broad daylight}!'"

You pierced the head of his warriors with his own arrows; they came like a whirlwind to scatter me, their exultation like [one who] devours the afflicted in ambush.

Now after two days it was the Passover and the feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, [after] arresting him by stealth, they could kill [him].

So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

Then they secretly instigated men who said, "We have heard him speaking blasphemous words against Moses and God!"

And I will give you [the] treasures of darkness and treasures of secret places so that you may know that I [am] Yahweh, the one who calls [you] by your name, the God of Israel,

My {frame} was not hidden from you, when I was created secretly, [and] intricately woven in [the] depths of [the] earth.

But you, [when you] practice charitable giving, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

So Joseph her husband, being righteous and not wanting to disgrace her, intended to divorce her secretly.

in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

A gift in secret will avert {anger}, and a {concealed bribe}, strong wrath.

But if you will not listen to it, my inner self will weep in secret places, because of {the presence of} [your] pride. And my eyes will weep bitterly, and they will melt [in] tears, because the flock of Yahweh has been taken captive.