20 Bible Verses about Blessing And Curse

Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:

A blessing if you obey the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you today,

I call Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,

And it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and when you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Jehovah your God has driven you,

For His blessed ones shall inherit the earth; and those cursed by Him shall be cut off.

And it will be, when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.

These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have come over Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin. And these shall stand on Mount Ebal to curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you, if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God.

And afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the Law.

But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. But I would not listen to Balaam. And he still blessed you. And I delivered you out of his hand.

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them so that he should curse them. But our God turned the curse into a blessing.

If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you.

Bless those who persecute you; bless, and do not curse.

And Balak's anger was kindled against Balaam. And he struck his hands together. And Balak said to Balaam, I called you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing these three times.

And Balak said to Balaam, Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all.

He crouched. He lay down as a lion, and as a great lion. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he who blesses you, and cursed is he who curses you.

And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing them!

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.