For as many as are of works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, Cursed is every one that continues not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.

but that which produces thorns and thistles is disapproved, and is nigh to a curse, the end of which is to be burned.

Prepared

You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning and stood not by the truth; for truth is not in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own; for he is a liar, and the father of him [that lies].

But if God wishing to show his wrath and to make known his power endured with much long suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,

For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but plunging them into Tartarus delivered them up in chains to be kept in darkness till the judgment,

By this are the children of God manifest, and the children of the devil; no one that does not righteousness is of God, and no one that loves not his brother.

and the angels who kept not their own province, but left their habitation, he has kept under darkness in eternal chains, for the judgment of the great day;

And there was a war in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting with the dragon. And the dragon fought and his angels,

General references

And Peter remembering, said to him, Rabbi, behold the fig tree which you cursed is dried up.