Proverbs 27:5

All About Life

⁴ Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy? ⁵ Better is open protest than love kept secret. ⁶ The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.

Open Rebuke is Better

Better Is Open Rebuke

Proverbs 28:23

He who says words of protest to a man will later have more approval than one who says smooth words with his tongue.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not living uprightly in agreement with the true words of the good news, I said to Cephas before them all, If you, being a Jew, are living like the Gentiles, and not like the Jews, how will you make the Gentiles do the same as the Jews?

Leviticus 19:17

Let there be no hate in your heart for your brother; but you may make a protest to your neighbour, so that he may be stopped from doing evil.

Matthew 18:15

And if your brother does wrong to you, go, make clear to him his error between you and him in private: if he gives ear to you, you have got your brother back again.

1 Timothy 5:20

Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.