43 Bible Verses about curses
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Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn't delight in blessing, and it was far from him.
They may curse, but you bless. When they arise, they will be shamed, but your servant shall rejoice.
I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you."
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
and they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed forever.
It shall happen, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land where you go to possess it, that you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim, and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
How shall I curse whom God has not cursed? How shall I defy whom Yahweh has not defied?
Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Cursed is he who does the work of Yahweh negligently; and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Nevertheless Yahweh your God wouldn't listen to Balaam; but Yahweh your God turned the curse into a blessing to you, because Yahweh your God loved you.
and the curse, if you shall not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which you have not known.
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.
Also don't take heed to all words that are spoken, lest you hear your servant curse you;
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who are made in the image of God.
Yahweh will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke, in all that you put your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly; because of the evil of your doings, by which you have forsaken me.
Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have blessed them altogether."
But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command you this day, that all these curses shall come on you, and overtake you.
Out of the same mouth comes forth blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.
Then he began to curse and to swear, "I don't know the man!" Immediately the rooster crowed.
If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Armies, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
'Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' All the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
"'The priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out into the water of bitterness.
'Curse Meroz,' said the angel of Yahweh. 'Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help Yahweh, to help Yahweh against the mighty.'
You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it. You shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
To Adam he said, "Because you have listened to your wife's voice, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, 'You shall not eat of it,' cursed is the ground for your sake. In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,
From Thematic Bible
Curses » Who not to curse
"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Don't curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don't curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.
Curses » Those that curse their parents
"'For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'
Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Curses » Those that are cursed
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
But the wicked shall perish. The enemies of Yahweh shall be like the beauty of the fields. They will vanish -- vanish like smoke. The wicked borrow, and don't pay back, but the righteous give generously. For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
Thus says Yahweh: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Yahweh. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.
Curses » The curse of the lord
Yahweh's curse is in the house of the wicked, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous.
Curses » The curse causeless
Like a fluttering sparrow, like a darting swallow, so the undeserved curse doesn't come to rest.
Topics on Curses
Curses, Christian Response To
Luke 6:29-30To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer also the other; and from him who takes away your cloak, don't withhold your coat also.
Curses, Divine
Genesis 5:29and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."
Curses, Human
2 Kings 2:23-24He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"