43 Bible Verses about curses

He loved to put curses on others, so he, too, was cursed. He did not like to bless others, so he never received a blessing.

They may curse, but you will bless. Let those who attack me be ashamed, but let your servant rejoice.

I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.

See I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse:

Everyone will look at you and your descendants and realize that Jehovah has placed you under a curse for a very long time.

When Jehovah your God brings you into the land you are about to possess, you will offer blessings on Mount Gerizim and cursing on Mount Ebal.

Jehovah puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the just.

Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who despitefully use you.

How can I curse those whom God has not cursed? How can I condemn those whom Jehovah has not condemned?

Jehovah your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you and who persecute you.

Curse those who do not do Jehovah's work with all their heart! Curse those who do not slash and kill!

Jehovah your God was not willing to listen to Balaam. Jehovah your God turned the curse into a blessing for you because Jehovah your God loves you.

Receive the curse when you do not listen to the commandments of Jehovah your God, but turn aside from the way that I command you today, by following other gods you have not known.

Like the bird by wandering, like the swallow by flying, so a curse without cause does not land.

Do not pay attention to everything that is said lest you hear your servant curse you.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.

We bless Jehovah, the Father, with it. (Psalm 34:1) Then we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.

If you do evil and reject Jehovah, he will bring on you trouble, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do. Soon you will be quickly and completely destroyed.

Balak responded to Balaam: What have you done to me? I brought you here to curse my enemies, but all you have done is bless them!

If you do not obey Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Blessing and cursing come out of the same mouth! My brothers, these things should not be.

Then with curses and oaths he said: I do not know the man! And immediately a rooster crowed.

You must honor me by your actions. If you will not listen to what I say, and give glory and honor to my name, I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. I have already put a curse on you. Your blessings are cursed already because you do not take my command seriously.

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

You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

He that blesses his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

Those who are of the works of the Law are under a curse. For it is written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, by obeying them.

JOB OPENED HIS MOUTH and cursed the day of his birth.

I call on heaven and earth as witnesses today that I have offered you life or death, blessings or curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants will live.

Cursed is the day when I was born. Let the day not be blessed when my mother bore me!

He wore cursing as though it were clothing; so cursing entered his body like water and his bones like oil.

Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image. It is an abomination to Jehovah! It is the secret work of the hands of the craftsman. All the people will answer: Amen.

Inform the Israelites: 'Those who treat their God with contempt will be punished for their sin.

This is because of the sins from their mouths and the words on their lips. Let them be trapped by their own arrogance because they speak curses and lies.

The priest will write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Curse Meroz, says Jehovah's angel: Curse those who live there. They did not come to help Jehovah. They did not come as soldiers to fight for him.

Do not bring an abomination into your house. You must utterly detest it and you must utterly abhor it, for it is something banned.

We labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it;

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

All these blessings and curses I have spoken about will happen to you. Take them to heart when you are among all the nations where Jehovah your God will scatter you.