Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law

Synonyms for Cursed: accursed, blasted, confounded, doggone, infernal, accurst, cotton-picking, cussed, damnable, dang, danged, darn, and darned

Genesis 3:14-15 (ESV)
The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:17 (ESV)
And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;

Genesis 4:9-11 (ESV)
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?” 10. And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to me from the ground. 11. And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.

Genesis 27:29 (ESV)
Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!”

Psalms 37:21-23 (ESV)
The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives; 22. for those blessed by the Lord shall inherit the land, but those cursed by him shall be cut off. 23. The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Psalms 119:21 (ESV)
You rebuke the insolent, accursed ones, who wander from your commandments.

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 (ESV)
Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. 22. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.

Jeremiah 11:3 (ESV)
You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Cursed be the man who does not hear the words of this covenant

Jeremiah 17:5 (ESV)
Thus says the Lord : “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord .

Jeremiah 48:10 (ESV)
“Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.

Malachi 2:2 (ESV)
If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.

Malachi 3:8-10 (ESV)
Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In your tithes and contributions. 9. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10. Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.

Matthew 25:40-41 (ESV)
And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’ 41. “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.

1 Corinthians 12:3 (ESV)
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 1:8 (ESV)
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.

Galatians 3:10 (ESV)
For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”

Galatians 3:13 (ESV)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

2 Peter 2:14 (ESV)
They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin. They entice unsteady souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

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