43 Bible Verses about curses

He also loved cursing, so it came to him;
And he did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.

Let them curse, but You bless;
When they arise, they shall be ashamed,
But Your servant shall be glad.

And I will bless those who bless you,
And the one who curses you I will curse.
And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

“See, I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

They shall become a sign and a wonder on you and your descendants forever.

“It shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

“How shall I curse whom God has not cursed?
And how can I denounce whom the Lord has not denounced?

The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

“Cursed be the one who does the Lord’s work negligently,
And cursed be the one who restrains his sword from blood.

Nevertheless, the Lord your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, but the Lord your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”—

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

Then he began to curse and swear, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

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

“You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones,
And the Lord God will slay you.
But My servants will be called by another name.

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, to perform them.”

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

Cursed be the day when I was born;
Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

But he clothed himself with cursing as with his garment,
And it entered into his body like water
And like oil into his bones.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,
Let them even be caught in their pride,
And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

‘Curse Meroz,’ said the angel of the Lord,
‘Utterly curse its inhabitants;
Because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
To the help of the Lord against the warriors.’

You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and like it come under the ban; you shall utterly detest it and you shall utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure;

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
In toil you will eat of it
All the days of your life.

“So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and you call them to mind in all nations where the Lord your God has banished you,