43 Bible Verses about curses

As he loved the curse, so let it come unto him; as he delighted not in the blessing, so let it be far from him.

Let them curse, but bless thou; when they arise, let them be ashamed, but let thy slave rejoice.

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

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

and they shall be in thee for a sign and for a wonder, and in thy seed for ever.

And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God has brought thee in unto the land where thou goest to inherit it that thou shalt put the blessing upon Mount Gerizim and the curse upon Mount Ebal,

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked, but he shall bless the habitation of the just.

bless those that curse you, and pray for those who despitefully use you.

Why should I curse one whom God has not cursed? And why should I denounce one whom the LORD has not denounced?

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

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

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

and the curse if ye will not hear the commandments of the 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 its wandering, as the swallow in its flight, so the curse causeless shall never come.

Also do not take to heart all the words that are spoken lest thou hear thy slave speak evil of thee:

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree),

With it we bless God, even the Father; and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, destruction and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand to do, until thou art destroyed and perish quickly because of the wickedness of thy doings, by which thou hast forsaken me.

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

And it shall come to pass if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep, to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee today, that all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee.

Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be so.

Then he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately a cock crew.

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

Bless those who persecute you: bless, and do not curse.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the Lord GOD shall slay thee and call his slaves by another name.

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

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

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.

I call the heavens and the earth to witness today against you that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live,

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

As he clothed himself with the curse like as with his garment, and it entered into his bowels like water and like oil into his bones.

Cursed is the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

And thou shalt speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, The man that speaks evil of 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; they shall be subject to weakness and to a curse.

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water;

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

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house lest thou become an anathema like it, but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is anathema.

and labour, working with our own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee, and thou shalt return unto thy heart among all the Gentiles, where the LORD thy God shall have driven thee,