43 Bible Verses about curses
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Yea, he loved cursing, so let it come to him; he delighted not in blessing, and it was far from him.
They will curse, but You will bless; they arise, and are ashamed; but let Your servant rejoice.
And I will bless those that bless you and curse the one who curses you. And in you shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse:
And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
And it will be, when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land where you go to possess it, you shall set the blessing upon Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebal.
The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but He blesses the home of the just.
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? Or how shall I defy whom Jehovah has not defied?
And Jehovah your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those that hate you, who persecuted you.
Cursed is he who does the work of Jehovah deceitfully, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
But Jehovah your God would not listen to Balaam, but Jehovah your God turned the curse to a blessing to you, because Jehovah your God loved you.
and a curse if you will not obey the commandments of Jehovah your God, but will turn aside out of the way which I command you today, to go after other gods which you have not known.
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse without cause shall not come.
Also do not listen to all words that are spoken; lest you hear your servant curse you.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");
By this we bless God, even the Father. And by this we curse men, who have come into being according to the image of God.
Jehovah shall send on you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings by which you have forsaken Me.
And Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have kept on blessing them!
And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. And immediately the cock crowed.
If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.
And you will leave your name for a curse to My elect; for the Lord Jehovah will kill you, and call His servants by another name.
He who 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 out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue 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 Heaven and earth to record today against you. I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that both you and your seed may live,
Cursed is the day in which I was born; let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
As he clothed himself with cursing, as with his robe, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Cursed is the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, 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 you shall speak to the sons of Israel saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak.
And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water.
Curse Meroz, said the Angel of Jehovah; curse the people of it bitterly, because they did not come to the help of Jehovah, to the help of Jehovah against the mighty.
And you shall not bring an abomination into your house, lest you be a cursed thing like it. You shall utterly hate it, and you shall utterly despise it. For it is a cursed thing.
And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;
And to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain shall you eat of it all the days of your life.
And it shall be when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you, and when you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Jehovah your God has driven you,
From Thematic Bible
Curses » Who not to curse
You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind, but shall fear your God. I am Jehovah.
Do not curse a king, no, not in your thought; and do not curse the rich in your bedroom; for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which has wings shall tell the matter.
Curses » Those that curse their parents
And any man who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. He has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be on him.
For Moses said, "Honor your father and your mother." And, "Whoever curses father or mother, let him die the death."
Curses » Those that are cursed
Then He also shall say to those on the left hand, Depart from Me, you cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his angels.
But the wicked shall pass, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be like the beauty of pastures; they are consumed, like smoke they perish. The wicked borrows, and never pays again; but the righteous shows mercy, and gives. For His blessed ones shall inherit the earth; and those cursed by Him shall be cut off.
So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah. For he shall be like a juniper in the desert, and shall not see when good comes. But he shall live in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land that is not inhabited.
Curses » The curse of the lord
The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked; but He blesses the home of the just.
Curses » The curse causeless
As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse without cause shall not come.
Topics on Curses
Curses, Christian Response To
Luke 6:29-30And to him who strikes you on the one cheek, also offer the other. And to him who takes away your garment, do not forbid your tunic also.
Curses, Divine
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, This one shall comfort us concerning our work and the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah has cursed.
Curses, Human
2 Kings 2:23-24And he went up from there to Bethel. And he was going up in the highway. And little boys came out from the city and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, bald head! Go up, bald head!