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Jeremias 44:23

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23 Porquanto queimastes incenso, e pecastes contra o Senhor, não obedecendo à voz do Senhor, nem andando na sua lei, nos seus estatutos e nos seus testemunhos; por isso vos sobreveio este mal, como se vê neste dia.

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Curse

  
God's Curse, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot

The Lord is love itself, and his love for us never wavers and never changes. What does waver and change is the degree to which we accept and respond to the Lord's love. So the Lord does not curse us; we curse ourselves by turning away from Him. So when the Bible talks of a "curse" or something being "cursed," it is talking about people turning away from the Lord and creating a separation. Among the most famous curses is that pronounced on the serpent after it beguiled Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden. The serpent represents our tendency to rely on our own senses for knowledge instead of the Lord. That tendency caused the people of the Lord's first, most innocent church to turn away from His guidance, cursing themselves.