BSN: Blessings and Curses

God’s blessings and curses are demonstrations of His kindness and severity.

• Blessings and Curses
  • Blessings: Deut 28:1-14; Curses: Deut 28:15-68
  • Although Moses does not explicitly use the words “blessings and curses” in Lev 26, those are the concepts he’s differentiating in that chapter and it establishes the pattern he later uses in Deut 28.
• Blessings
  • blessings and benedictions – Act 20:32; 2 Cor 13:14; Heb 13:20-21; Jude 1:24-25; Num 6:24-26; Ps 128:1-6; Ps 133:1-3
    • *benediction – the speaking or pronouncement of a blessing
• Curses
  • Deut 27:14-26
  • Gal 3:13 – “CURSED IS EVERYONE WHO HANGS ON A TREE” (Deut 21:23)