Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
General references
Bible References
General references
Matthew 18:15
If your brother sins [against you], go and reprove him, as between you and him alone. If he listens to you, then you have won your brother over;
Galatians 2:14
But I saw they were swerving from the true line of the gospel; so I said to Cephas in presence of them all, "If you live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, though you are a Jew yourself, why do you oblige the Gentiles to become Jews?" ??15 We may be Jews by birth and not 'Gentile sinners,'
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who are guilty of sin you must expose in public, to overawe the others.