Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
General references
Bible References
General references
Proverbs 28:23
He that rebukes a man shall find more favor afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue.
Leviticus 19:17
You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
Matthew 18:15
Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
1 Timothy 5:20
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.