Proverbs 27:5

All About Life

⁴ The cruelty of rage, and the overflow of anger! But who can stand before, jealousy? ⁵ Better is a rebuke that is open, than love carefully concealed. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but lavished are the kisses of an enemy.

Open Rebuke is Better

Better Is Open Rebuke

Proverbs 28:23

He that reproveth a man, shall, afterwards, find more, favour, than he that useth a flattering tongue.

Galatians 2:14

But, when I saw that they were not walking with straightforwardness as regardeth the truth of the glad-message, I said unto Cephas, before all: If, thou, although, a Jew, like them of the nations, and not like the Jews, dost live, how dost thou compel, them of the nations, to live like Jews?

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart, - Thou shalt, faithfully reprove, thy neighbour, and not countenance him in sin:

Matthew 18:15

But, if thy brother sin, withdraw, convince him, betwixt thee and him, alone, - If unto thee he hearken, thou hast gained thy brother;

1 Timothy 5:20

But, them who are sinning, before all, do thou reprove, that, the rest also, may have, fear: -