Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
General references
Bible References
General references
Proverbs 28:23
He who reproves a man later find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.
Leviticus 19:17
Never hate your brother in your heart. Be sure to correct your neighbor so that you will not be guilty of sinning along with him.
Matthew 18:15
If your brother does wrong to you, go to him in private. Clearly explain his error between you and him. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother back.
Galatians 2:14
I saw that they did not walk uprightly according to the truth of the good news. Therefore I said to Cephas, in front of them all: If you, being a Jew, live as the nations do and not as the Jews, why do you compel the people of the nations to live like the Jews?
1 Timothy 5:20
Reprove the sinner in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.