43 Bible Verses about curses
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He loved to curse; let curses come upon him! He did not delight in blessing; may it be far from him!
Let them curse, but you will bless! They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
They shall be a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever.
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
How can I curse whom God has not cursed? How can I denounce whom the LORD has not denounced?
And the LORD your God will put all these curses on your foes and enemies who persecuted you.
"Cursed is he who does the work of the LORD with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
But the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loved you.
and the curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way that I am commanding you today, to go after other gods that you have not known.
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"--
With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God.
"The LORD will send on you curses, confusion, and frustration in all that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and perish quickly on account of the evil of your deeds, because 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 done nothing but bless them."
"But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, "I do not know the man." And immediately the rooster crowed.
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name.
Whoever blesses his neighbor with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, will be counted as cursing.
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live,
Cursed be the day on which I was born! The day when my mother bore me, let it not be blessed!
He clothed himself with cursing as his coat; may it soak into his body like water, like oil into his bones!
"'Cursed be the man who makes a carved or cast metal image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.'And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
And speak to the people of Israel, saying, Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
For the sin of their mouths, the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride. For the cursing and lies that they utter,
"Then the priest shall write these curses in a book and wash them off into the water of bitterness.
"Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.
And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, for it is devoted to destruction.
and we labor, working with our own hands. When reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure;
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, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
"And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the LORD your God has driven you,
From Thematic Bible
Curses » Who not to curse
You shall not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.
Even in your thoughts, do not curse the king, nor in your bedroom curse the rich, for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
Curses » Those that curse their parents
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
If one curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in utter darkness.
Curses » Those that are cursed
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
But the wicked will perish; the enemies of the LORD are like the glory of the pastures; they vanish--like smoke they vanish away. The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives; for those blessed by the LORD shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off.
Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land.
Curses » The curse of the lord
The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous.
Curses » The curse causeless
Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.
Topics on Curses
Curses, Christian Response To
Luke 6:29-30To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either.
Curses, Divine
Genesis 5:29and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the LORD has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."
Curses, Human
2 Kings 2:23-24He went up from there to Bethel, and while he was going up on the way, some small boys came out of the city and jeered at him, saying, "Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!"
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