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Curses in the Bible

Those who curse/mistreat Jews   (Deuteronomy 27:26; Genesis 27:29; 12:3; Numbers 24:9).

Those willing deceivers   (Josuha 9:23; Jeremiah 48:10; Malachi 1:14; Genesis 27:12).

An adulterous woman   (Numbers 5:27).

Disobedience of Lord's commandments   (Deuteronomy 11:28; Daniel 9:11; Jeremiah 11:3).

Idolatry   (Jeremiah 44:8; Deuteronomy 29:19; Exodus 20:5; Deuteronomy 5:8-9).

Those who keep or own cursed objects   (Deuteronomy 7:25; Josuha 6:18).

Those who refuse to come to the Lord's help   (Judges 5:23).

House of the wicked   (Proverbs 3:33).

He who gives nothing to the poor   (Proverbs 28:27).

The earth by reason of man's disobedience   (Isaiah 24:3-6).

Jerusalem is a curse to all nations if Jews rebel against God   (Jeremiah 26:6).

Thieves and those who swear falsely by the Lord's Name   (Zechariah 5:4).

Ministers who fail to give the glory to God   (Malachi 2:2; Revelation 1:6).

Those who rob God of tithes and offerings   (Malachi 3:9; Haggai 1:6-9).

Those who hearken unto their wives rather than God   (Genesis 3:17).

Those who lightly esteem their parents   (Deuteronomy 27:16).

Those who make graven images   (Deuteronomy 5:8; 27:15; Exodus 20:4).

Those who willfully cheat people out of their property   (Deuteronomy 27:17).

Those who take advantage of the blind   (Deuteronomy 27:18).

Those oppressing strangers, widows, fatherless   (Deuteronomy 27:19; Exodus 22:22-24).

Him who lies with his father's wife   (Deuteronomy 27:21; Exodus 22:19).

Him who lies with his sister   (Deuteronomy 27:22).

Those who smite their neighbors secretly   (Deuteronomy 27:24).

Those who take money to slay the innocent   (Deuteronomy 27:24).

Him who lies with any beast   (Deuteronomy 27:21; Exodus 22:19).

Adulterers   (Job 24:15-18; Deuteronomy 22:22-27).

The proud   (Psalms 119:21).

Those who trust in man and not the Lord   (Jeremiah 48:10).

Those who do the work of the Lord deceitfully   (Jeremiah 48:10).

Him who keeps back his sword from blood   (Jeremiah 48:10; I Kings 20:35-42).

Those who reward evil for good   (Proverbs 17:13).

Illegitimate children   (Deuteronomy 23:2).

Children born from incestuous unions   (Genesis 19:36-38).

Murderers   (Exodus 21:12).

To murder indirectly   (Exodus 21:14).

Children who strike their parents   (Exodus 21:15).

Kidnappers   (Exodus 21:16; Deuteronomy 24:7).

Those who curse their parents   (Exodus 21:17).

Those who cause the unborn to die   (Exodus 21:22-23).

Those who do not prevent death   (Exodus 21:29).

Those involved in witchcraft   (Exodus 22:18).

Those who sacrifice to false gods   (Exodus 22:20).

Those who attempt to turn anyone away from the Lord   (Deuteronomy 13:6-9).

Those who follow horoscopes   (Deuteronomy 17:2-5).

Those who rebel against pastors   (Deuteronomy 17:12).

False prophets   (Deuteronomy 18:19-22).

Women who keep not their virginity until they are married   (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

Parents who do not discipline their children, but honor them above God   (I Samuel 2:17,27-36).

Those who curse their rulers   (I Kings 2:8-9; Exodus 22:28).

Those who teach rebellion against the Lord   (Jeremiah 28:16-17).

Those who refuse to warn them that sin   (Ezekiel 3:18-21).

Those who defile the Sabbath   (Exodus 31:14; Numbers 15:32-36).

Those who sacrifice human beings   (Leviticus 20:2).

Participants in seances and fortune telling   (Leviticus 20:6).

Homosexual and lesbian relationships   (Leviticus 20:13).

Sexual intercourse during menstruation   (Leviticus 20:18).

Necromancers and fortune tellers   (Leviticus 20:27).

Those who blaspheme the Lord's name   (Leviticus 24:15-16).