Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
General references
Bible References
General references
Proverbs 28:23
He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.
Matthew 18:15
And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?
1 Timothy 5:20
Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear.