43 Bible Verses about curses

As he loved cursing, so let it come to him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:

And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in to the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Bless them that curse you, and pray for them who despitefully use you.

How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the LORD hath not defied?

And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thy enemies, and on them that hate thee, who persecuted thee.

Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.

Nevertheless, the LORD thy God would not hearken to Balaam: but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing to thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside from the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Also take no heed to all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Accursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

With this we bless God, even the Father; and with this we curse men, who are made after the similitude of God.

The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou undertakest to perform, until thou shalt be destroyed, and until thou shalt perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings by which thou hast forsaken me.

And Balak said to Balaam, What hast thou done to me? I took thee to curse my enemies, and behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crowed.

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

Bless them who persecute you; bless, and curse not.

And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen: for the Lord GOD will slay thee, and call his servants by another name:

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

For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Accursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed his day.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Cursed be the day in which I was born: let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the artificer, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer, and say Amen.

And thou shalt speak to the children of Israel, saying, Whoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD, curse ye bitterly its inhabitants; because they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.

Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thy house, lest thou shouldst be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.

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

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And it shall come to pass, when all these things have come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,