But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,

For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

“Then He will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels:

Then he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know the Man!” Immediately a rooster crowed.

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’

And Peter, remembering, said to Him, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree which You cursed has withered away.”

Then he began to curse and swear, “I do not know this Man of whom you speak!”

bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.

The Law Brings a Curse

For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them.”

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”),

but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

With it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.

And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.