43 Bible Verses about curses

He loved to curse may his curses return upon him! He took no delight in blessing others so may blessings be far from him.

They will curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, while your servant rejoices.

I'll bless those who bless you, but I'll curse the one who curses you, and through you all the people of the earth will be blessed."

Look! I'm about to grant you a blessing and a curse

These curses will serve as a sign and wonder for you and your descendants as long as you live."

"When the LORD brings you to the land that you are about to enter to inherit, repeat the blessings on Mount Gerizim and the curses on Mount Ebal.

The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

Bless those who curse you, and pray for those who insult you.

But how can I curse those whom God hasn't cursed? How can I denounce those whom the LORD hasn't denounced?

Then the LORD your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate and persecute you."

Cursed is the one who is slack in doing the LORD's work. Cursed is the one who holds back his sword from shedding blood.

However, the LORD your God didn't listen to Balaam. The LORD your God turned Balaam's curse into a blessing, because the LORD your God loves you.

or a curse if you don't obey the commands of the LORD your God, by turning from the way that I'm commanding you today and following other gods whom you have not known."

Like a fluttering sparrow or a swallow in flight, a curse without cause will not alight.

Don't listen to everything that is spoken you may hear your servant cursing you,

The Messiah redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who is hung on a tree!"

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in God's likeness.

"The LORD will send the curse among you, will confuse you, and will rebuke you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and perish quickly because of your evil deeds, since you will have forsaken him.

"What are you doing to me?" Balak asked Balaam. "I brought you to curse my enemies, not pronounce a blessing!"

"But if you don't obey the LORD your God and faithfully carry out all his commands and statutes that I'm giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overwhelm you:

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. It should not be like this, my brothers!

Then he began to curse violently. "I don't know the man!" he swore solemnly. Just then a rooster crowed.

"If you don't listen, and if you don't choose to give honor to my name," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "then I'll curse both you and your blessings. I've even cursed them already, because none of you are taking it to heart.

Bless those who persecute you. Keep on blessing them, and never curse them.

You'll leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death permanently.

A friend's loud blessing early in the morning will be thought of as a curse.

Certainly all who depend on the actions of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, "A curse on everyone who does not obey everything that is written in the Book of the Law!"

After this, Job spoke up solemnly, cursing the day he was born.

I call heaven and earth to testify against you today! I've set life and death before you today: both blessings and curses. Choose life, that it may be well with you you and your children.

Let the day on which I was born be cursed. Don't let the day on which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

""Cursed is the one who makes a sculptured or cast image a detestable thing to the LORD, the work of a craftsman and sets it up secretly.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

Moreover, tell the Israelis that anyone who curses his God will bear the consequences of his own sin,

The sin of their mouth is the word on their lips. They will be caught in their own conceit; for they speak curses and lies.

"Then the priest is to write all of these words in a document and wipe it off with the contaminated water.

""Meroz is cursed!' declared the angel of the LORD. "Utterly and totally cursed are its inhabitants, because they never came to the aid of the LORD, to the aid of the LORD against the valiant warriors!'"

Don't bring any detestable thing to your house, because you yourself will be utterly destroyed along with these detestable things. You must absolutely abhor and detest all of it, because it has been devoted to destruction."

We wear ourselves out from working with our own hands. When insulted, we bless. When persecuted, we endure.

He told the man, "Because you have listened to what your wife said, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, "You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground because of you. You'll eat from it through pain-filled labor for the rest of your life.

"When all these things happen to you both the blessings and the curses that I've presented to you and you take them seriously in all the nations where the LORD your God will deport you,