Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
General references
Bible References
General references
Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who 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
"If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
1 Timothy 5:20
Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.