43 Bible Verses about curses

And he loveth reviling, and it meeteth him, And he hath not delighted in blessing, And it is far from him.

They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.

And I bless those blessing thee, and him who is disesteeming thee I curse, and blessed in thee have been all families of the ground.'

'See, I am setting before you to-day a blessing and a reviling:

and they have been on thee for a sign and for a wonder, also on thy seed -- to the age.

'And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;

The curse of Jehovah is in the house of the wicked. And the habitation of the righteous He blesseth.

bless those cursing you, and pray for those accusing you falsely;

What -- do I pierce? -- God hath not pierced! And what -- am I indignant? -- Jehovah hath not been indignant!

and Jehovah thy God hath put all this oath on thine enemies, and on those hating thee, who have pursued thee.

Cursed is he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, And cursed is he Who is withholding his sword from blood.

and Jehovah thy God hath not been willing to hearken unto Balaam, and Jehovah thy God doth turn for thee the reviling to a blessing, because Jehovah thy God hath loved thee;

and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.

Also to all the words that they speak give not thy heart, that thou hear not thy servant reviling thee.

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

with it we do bless the God and Father, and with it we do curse the men made according to the similitude of God;

Jehovah doth send on thee the curse, the trouble, and the rebuke, in every putting forth of thy hand which thou dost, till thou art destroyed, and till thou perish hastily, because of the evil of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken Me.

And Balak saith unto Balaam, 'What hast thou done to me? to pierce mine enemies I have taken thee -- and lo, thou hast certainly blessed;'

'And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:

out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

Then began he to anathematise, and to swear -- 'I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,

If ye hearken not, and if ye lay it not to heart, To give honour to My name, said Jehovah of Hosts, I have sent against you the curse, And I have cursed your blessings, Yea, I have also cursed it, Because ye are not laying it to heart.

Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.

Whoso is saluting his friend with a loud voice, In the morning rising early, A light thing it is reckoned to him.

for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law -- to do them,'

After this hath Job opened his mouth, and revileth his day.

'I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

Cursed is the day in which I was born, The day that my mother bare me, Let it not be blessed!

And he putteth on reviling as his robe, And it cometh in as water into his midst, And as oil into his bones.

Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God -- then he hath borne his sin;

The sin of their mouth is a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.

And the priest hath written these execrations in a book, and hath blotted them out with the bitter waters,

Curse Meroz -- said a messenger of Jehovah, Cursing, curse ye its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty!

and thou dost not bring in an abomination unto thy house -- or thou hast been devoted like it; -- thou dost utterly detest it, and thou dost utterly abominate it; for it is devoted.

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

And to the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,

And it hath been, when all these things come upon thee, the blessing and the reviling, which I have set before thee, and thou hast brought them back unto thy heart, among all the nations whither Jehovah thy God hath driven thee away,