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13 Bible Verses About Cursing

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  • In Numbers 22-24 Balak pays Balaam to curse Israel, and Balaam blesses Israel instead, asking “How can I curse those whom God has not cursed?” (23:8).
  • Israel’s law forbade cursing God (Leviticus 24:15-16), the ruler of the people (Exodus 22:28), a parent (Exodus 21:17) and the deaf (Leviticus 19:14).
  • Job’s wife tells him to “Curse God and die!”, and Job 2:10 records that he “did not sin in what he said.”
  • Luke 6:28 tells Jesus’ hearers to bless those who curse them, and in 1 Corinthians 4:12 Paul says of the apostles, “When we are cursed, we bless.”
  • The Schleitheim Confession reads Christ’s command as forbidding all oaths; Article XXXIX of the Church of England allows an oath a magistrate requires, “in a cause of faith and charity,” taken “in justice, judgement, and truth.”

In the Bible, to curse is to call down harm on someone, and a curse God does not back has no force. Balaam, hired to curse Israel, asks “How can I curse those whom God has not cursed?” (Numbers 23:8), and Proverbs 26:2 says an undeserved curse “does not come to rest.” Israel’s law forbade cursing God, a ruler, a parent or the deaf (Leviticus 24:15-16; Exodus 22:28; Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 19:14), and Jesus tells his followers to “bless those…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version. Jeremiah 4:2 is also quoted from the King James Version.

The Church of England. Articles of Religion, Article XXXIX, “Of a Christian man’s Oath.” churchofengland.org

The Schleitheim Confession of Faith, Article VII, on the oath. courses.washington.edu

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