43 Bible Verses about curses

Yea, he loved cursing, and it came to him. And he did not delight in blessing, and it was far from him.

Let them curse, but bless thou. When they arise, they shall be put to shame, but thy servant shall rejoice.

And I will bless those who bless thee, and he who curses thee I will curse. And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

and they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed forever.

And it shall come to pass, when LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land where thou go to possess it, that thou shall set the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation 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 shall I defy, whom LORD has not defied?

And LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on those who hate thee, who persecuted thee.

Cursed be he who does the work of LORD negligently, and cursed be he who keeps back his sword from blood.

Nevertheless LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam, but LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because LORD thy God loved thee.

and the curse, if ye shall not hearken to the commandments of LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

As the sparrow in her wandering, as the swallow in her flying, so the curse that is causeless does not alight.

Also do not take heed to all words that are spoken, lest thou hear thy servant curse thee.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every man who hangs on a tree.

By it we bless the God and Father, and by it we curse men, who were made according to a likeness of God.

LORD will send upon thee cursing, discomfiture, and rebuke, in all that thou put thy hand to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly, because of the evil of thy doings, by which thou have forsaken me.

And Balak said to Balaam, What have thou done to me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and, behold, thou have blessed them altogether.

But it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and curse. My brothers, these things ought not to happen this way.

Then he began to curse vehemently and to swear, I do not know the man. And straightaway a cock sounded.

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it

Bless those who persecute you. Bless ye and do not curse.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and lord LORD will kill thee. And he will call his servants by another name,

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be considered a curse to him.

For as many as are from works of law are under a curse, for it is written, Cursed is every man who does not continue in all things written in the book of the law, to do them.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that thou may live, thou and thy seed,

Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

He also clothed himself with cursing as with his garment, and it came into his inward parts like water, and like oil into his bones.

Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

And thou shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

[for] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips. Let them even be taken in their pride, and for cursing and lying which they speak.

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.

Curse ye Meroz, said the agent of LORD. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants of it, because they did not come to the help of LORD, to the help of LORD against the mighty.

And thou shall not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a devoted thing like it. Thou shall utterly detest it, and thou shall utterly abhor it, for it is a cursed thing.

And we toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure;

And to Adam he said, Because thou have hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shall not eat of it, cursed is the ground for thy sake. In toil thou shall eat of it all

And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shall call them to mind among all the nations, where LORD thy God has driven thee,