20 Bible Verses about Blessing And Curse
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the blessing, if you listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God that I [am] commanding you {today},
I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,
"And then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set {before you} {and you call them to mind} among the nations there where Yahweh your God [has] scattered you,
For those blessed [by] him shall possess [the] land, but those cursed [by] him shall be cut off.
"And it will happen [that] when Yahweh your God has brought you to {the land that you are going to}, to take possession of it, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
"These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people {when you cross} the Jordan: Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Joseph and Benjamin. And these shall stand on Mount Ebal for [delivering] the curse: Reuben, Gad and Asher and Zebulun, Dan and Naphtali.
And all of these blessings shall come upon you, and {they shall have an effect on you} if you listen to the voice of Yahweh your God:
And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and the curses, according to all that was written in the scroll of the law.
But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, set out and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you, but I was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he richly blessed you. So I rescued you from his hand,
because they did not come to meet the {Israelites} with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them in order to curse them--but our God changed the curse into a blessing.
If you will not listen, and if you will not {take it to heart} to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have [already] cursed them because {you are not taking it to heart}.
Then {Balak became angry with} Balaam, and he clapped his hands and said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, but look, you have surely blessed [them] these three times.
Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!"
He crouches, he lies down like a lion, and like a lioness, who will rouse him? [They who] bless you will be blessed, and [they who] curse you will be cursed."
And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these [things] ought not to be so!
Bible Theasaurus
- Curse (243 instances)