20 occurrences

'Curses' in the Bible

You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

Verse ConceptsBearingCursing Godconsequencescurses

‘The priest shall then write these curses on a scroll, and he shall wash them off into the water of bitterness.

Verse ConceptsScrollsWritingBitter WaterRepulsive FoodJudgements WrittenBitternesscurses

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,And as a lion, who dares rouse him?Blessed is everyone who blesses you,And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

Verse ConceptsCrouchingLying Down To RestLike CreaturesBlessing And CurseBlessing Through God's PeopleCursing Israel

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord 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:

Verse ConceptsAtonementethics, incentives towardsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityReward, DivineSowing And ReapingVictory, As An Act Of GodWarfare, Examples OfDisobedience, To GodJewish PersecutionIf You Do Not Keep CommandsObedienceObeying Goddisobedienceconsequencescursesobeying

“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

Verse ConceptsConfusionRebukeDisorganizationConsequences Of Forsaking Godcurses

“So all these curses shall come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you.

Verse ConceptsIf You Do Not Keep Commands

Then the Lord will single him out for adversity from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant which are written in this book of the law.

Verse ConceptsSeparationBook of the LawThe Curse Of The LawNatural Disasters

The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions Of The WickedThe Curse Of The LawOvercoming EnemiesEnemiesEnemy Attackshaterscurses

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

Verse ConceptsWhat Have We In Common?Cursing The UngodlyGod's Orders

thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

On account of the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips,Let them even be caught in their pride,And on account of curses and lies which they utter.

Verse ConceptsEvil SpeakingLipsCharacter Of WickedThe Proud Will Be AbasedUngodly CursingPrideSwearingcurses

Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne meAs a man of strife and a man of contention to all the land!I have not lent, nor have men lent money to me,Yet everyone curses me.

Verse ConceptsdoubtersHealthInterestLonelinessSadnessSelf PitySuicideCynicismNever Being BornRegretting BirthBorrowingLending And BorrowingUngodly CursingFighting One AnotherConflictlent

Bible Theasaurus

Excommunicate (2 instances)
Execration (10 instances)
Nemesis (1 instance)

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