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 (NIV)
So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, “Cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. 15. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
Genesis 3:17 (NIV)
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 4:9-11 (NIV)
Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I don’t know,” he replied. “Am I my brother’s keeper?” 10. The Lord said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground. 11. Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
Genesis 27:29 (NIV)
May nations serve you and peoples bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may the sons of your mother bow down to you. May those who curse you be cursed and those who bless you be blessed.”
Psalm 37:21-23 (NIV)
The wicked borrow and do not repay, but the righteous give generously; 22. those the Lord blesses will inherit the land, but those he curses will be destroyed. 23. The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him;
Psalm 119:21 (NIV)
You rebuke the arrogant, who are accursed, those who stray from your commands.
Ecclesiastes 7:21-22 (NIV)
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you— 22. for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.
Jeremiah 11:3 (NIV)
Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant—
Jeremiah 17:5 (NIV)
This is what the Lord says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the Lord .
Jeremiah 48:10 (NIV)
“A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps their sword from bloodshed!
Malachi 2:2 (NIV)
If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.
Malachi 3:8-10 (NIV)
“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. 10. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.
Matthew 25:40-41 (NIV)
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41. “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
1 Corinthians 12:3 (NIV)
Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
Galatians 1:8 (NIV)
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!
Galatians 3:10 (NIV)
For all who rely on the works of the law are under a curse, as it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
Galatians 3:13 (NIV)
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”
2 Peter 2:14 (NIV)
With eyes full of adultery, they never stop sinning; they seduce the unstable; they are experts in greed—an accursed brood!
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