43 Bible Verses about curses

He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.

They curse, but you will bless. When they attack, they will be humiliated, but your servant will rejoice.

I will bless those who bless you, but the one who treats you lightly I must curse, and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name."

Take note -- I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

These curses will be a perpetual sign and wonder with reference to you and your descendants.

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are to possess, you must pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on 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 one whom God has not cursed, or how can I denounce one whom the Lord has not denounced?

Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord's work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!

But the Lord your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed the curse to a blessing, for the Lord your God loves you.

and the curse if you pay no attention to his commandments and turn from the way I am setting before you today to pursue other gods you have not known.

Like a fluttering bird or like a flying swallow, so a curse without cause does not come to rest.

Also, do not pay attention to everything that people say; otherwise, you might even hear your servant cursing you.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us (because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree")

With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse people made in God's image.

"The Lord will send on you a curse, confusing you and opposing you in everything you undertake until you are destroyed and quickly perish because of the evil of your deeds, in that you have forsaken me.

Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I brought you to curse my enemies, but on the contrary you have only blessed them!"

"But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:

From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

At that he began to curse, and he swore with an oath, "I do not know the man!" At that moment a rooster crowed.

If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name," says the Lord who rules over all, "I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses -- indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

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

Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.

If someone 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 doing the works of the law are under a curse, because it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not keep on doing everything written in the book of the law."

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

Cursed be the day I was born! May that day not be blessed when my mother gave birth to me.

He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image -- something abhorrent to the Lord, the work of the craftsman -- and sets it up in a secret place.' Then all the people will say, 'Amen!'

Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites, 'If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

"'Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

Call judgment down on Meroz,' says the Lord's angelic messenger; 'Be sure to call judgment down on those who live there, because they did not come to help in the Lord's battle, to help in the Lord's battle against the warriors.'

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

"When you have experienced all these things, both the blessings and the curses I have set before you, you will reflect upon them in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you.