'Curse' in the Bible
Then began he to curse and to swear, I know not the man. And straightway the cock crew.
But he began to curse, and to swear, I know not this man of whom ye speak.
bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.
And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.
For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
but if it beareth thorns and thistles, it is rejected and nigh unto a curse; whose end is to be burned.
Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:
And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him;