43 Bible Verses about curses

He loved cursing—let it fall on him;
he took no delight in blessing—let it be far from him.

Though they curse, You will bless.
When they rise up, they will be put to shame,
but Your servant will rejoice.

I will bless those who bless you,
I will curse those who treat you with contempt,
and all the peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.

“Look, today I set before you a blessing and a curse:

These curses will be a sign and a wonder against you and your descendants forever.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

The Lord’s curse is on the household of the wicked,
but He blesses the home of the righteous;

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

How can I curse someone God has not cursed?
How can I denounce someone the Lord has not denounced?

The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you.

The one who does
the Lord’s business deceitfully is cursed,
and the one who withholds
his sword from bloodshed is cursed.

Yet the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam, but He turned the curse into a blessing for you because the Lord your God loves you.

and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.

Like a flitting sparrow or a fluttering swallow,
an undeserved curse goes nowhere.

Don’t pay attention to everything people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you,

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

We praise our Lord and Father with it, and we curse men who are made in God’s likeness with it.

The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do until you are destroyed and quickly perish, because of the wickedness of your actions in abandoning Me.

“What have you done to me?” Balak asked Balaam. “I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed them!”

“But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all His commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:

Praising and cursing come out of the same mouth. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

Then he started to curse and to swear with an oath, “I do not know the man!” Immediately a rooster crowed,

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honor My name,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

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

You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.

If one blesses his neighbor
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.

For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written: Everyone who does not continue doing everything written in the book of the law is cursed.

After this, Job began to speak and cursed the day he was born.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

May the day I was born
be cursed.
May the day my mother bore me
never be blessed.

He wore cursing like his coat—
let it enter his body like water
and go into his bones like oil.

‘The person who makes a carved idol or cast image, which is detestable to the Lord, the work of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret is cursed.’
And all the people will reply, ‘Amen!’

And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

For the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips,
let them be caught in their pride.
They utter curses and lies.

“Then the priest is to write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

“Curse Meroz,” says the Angel of the Lord,
“Bitterly curse her inhabitants,
for they did not come to help the Lord,
to help the Lord against the mighty warriors.”

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

And He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.

“When all these things happen to you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you come to your senses while you are in all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you,