43 Bible Verses about curses
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Because he loved cursing, let it come [upon] him. Because he did not delight in blessing, let it be far from him.
Let them curse, but you bless. [When] they arise, let them be put to shame, that your servant may be glad.
And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse. And all families of the earth will be blessed in you."
"See, I am setting {before you} {today} a blessing and a curse:
And they shall be among you as a sign and as a wonder and among your offspring {forever}.
"And it will happen [that] when Yahweh your God has brought you to {the land that you are going to}, to take possession of it, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
The curse of Yahweh [is] on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses.
How can I curse [whom] God has not cursed, and how can I denounce [whom] Yahweh has not denounced?
And Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and {on those who hate you}, [on] {those who harassed you}.
[The one who] does the work of Yahweh [with] slackness [is] cursed, and [the one who] keeps away blood from his sword [is] cursed.
But Yahweh your God was not willing to listen to Balaam, and Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
and the curse, if you [do] not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but [rather] you turn from the way that I [am] commanding you {today} to go after other gods that you have not known.
Like the sparrow [is] to fluttering and like the swallow [is] to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth.
Do not pay attention to everything people say, lest you hear your own servant curse 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 who are made in the likeness of God.
"Yahweh will send upon you the curse, the panic, and the threat {in everything that you undertake}, {until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly} {because of} the evil of your deeds in that you have forsaken me.
And Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have surely blessed them!"
"{And then} if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God {by diligently observing} all of his commandments and his statutes that I [am] commanding you {today}, then all of these curses shall come upon you, and they shall overtake you:
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these [things] ought not to be so!
Then he began to curse and to swear with an oath, "I do not know the man!" And immediately a rooster crowed.
If you will not listen, and if you will not {take it to heart} to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have [already] cursed them because {you are not taking it to heart}.
And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will {give} his servants another name.
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, a curse will be reckoned to him.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse, for it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who does not abide by all [the things] that are written in the book of the law to do them."
{Afterward} Job opened his mouth and cursed his day.
I invoke as a witness against you {today} the heaven and the earth: life and death I have set {before you}, blessing and curse. So choose life, so that you may live, you and your offspring,
Cursed be [the] day [on] which I was born, let not the day [on] which my mother gave birth to me be blessed.
Because he wore a curse as his robe, let it enter {his body} like water, and into his bones like oil.
'Cursed be the man that makes a divine image or a cast image, [which is] a detestable thing for Yahweh, the work of the hand of a skilled craftsman, and [then] sets [it] in a hiding place.' And {all the people shall respond}, 'Amen.'
And you shall speak to the {Israelites}, saying, '{Any man} when he curses his God shall bear his sin.
[By] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips, even in their pride, let them be trapped, and for [the] curses and lies they proclaim.
" 'And the priests will write these curses on the scroll, and he will wipe [them] off into the waters of the bitterness.
'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.'
And you must not bring a detestable thing into your house, or you will become a thing devoted to destruction like it; you must utterly detest it, and you must utterly abhor it, for it [is] [an] object devoted to destruction.
and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;
And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.
"And then when all of these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse that I have set {before you} {and you call them to mind} among the nations there where Yahweh your God [has] scattered you,
From Thematic Bible
Curses » Who not to curse
You shall not curse [the] deaf, and you shall not put a stumbling block {before} a blind person, but you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.
Do not curse the king even in your thoughts, and do not curse the rich even in your own bedroom, for a bird of the sky may carry your voice; a winged messenger may repeat your words.
Curses » Those that curse their parents
" 'If [there is] {anyone} who curses his father or his mother, he shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father and his mother--his blood [is] upon him.
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'The one who speaks evil of father or mother {must certainly die}.'
He who curses his father and his mother, his lamp will be extinguished {in the midst of darkness}.
Curses » Those that are cursed
Then he will also say to those on [his] left, 'Depart from me, [you] accursed ones, into the eternal fire that has been prepared for the devil and his angels!
But [the] wicked will perish, and the enemies of Yahweh [will be] like [the] splendor of [the] pastures. They vanish; in smoke they vanish. [The] wicked borrows and does not repay, but [the] righteous [is] gracious and gives. For those blessed [by] him shall possess [the] land, but those cursed [by] him shall be cut off.
Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh. And he will be like a juniper in the wilderness, and he will not see when good comes, and he will dwell [in the] parched places in the desert, [in] a land of salt flats, where no one lives.
Curses » The curse of the lord
The curse of Yahweh [is] on the house of the wicked, and the abode of the righteous ones he blesses.
Curses » The curse causeless
Like the sparrow [is] to fluttering and like the swallow [is] to flying, so an undeserved curse does not go forth.
Topics on Curses
Curses, Christian Response To
Luke 6:29-30To the one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from the one who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic also.
Curses, Divine
Genesis 5:29And he called his name Noah, saying, "This one {shall relieve us} from our work, and from the hard labor of our hands, from the ground which Yahweh had cursed.
Curses, Human
2 Kings 2:23-24Then he went up from there [to] Bethel; as he [was] going up along the way, young boys came out from the city and mocked at him and said to him, "Go up, baldhead; go up, baldhead!"