Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Naked rebuke is good above secret love.
New American Standard Bible
Than love that is concealed.
King James Version
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Holman Bible
than concealed love.
International Standard Version
An open rebuke is better than unspoken love.
A Conservative Version
Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.
American Standard Version
Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
Amplified
Better is an open reprimand [of loving correction]
Than love that is hidden.
Bible in Basic English
Better is open protest than love kept secret.
Darby Translation
Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
King James 2000
Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
Modern King James verseion
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An open rebuke is better than secret love.
NET Bible
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
New Heart English Bible
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
The Emphasized Bible
Better is a rebuke that is open, than love carefully concealed.
Webster
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
World English Bible
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Youngs Literal Translation
Better is open reproof than hidden love.
Themes
Topics
Interlinear
Galah
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:5
Prayers for Proverbs 27:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
4 Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy? 5 Naked rebuke is good above secret love. 6 Faithful the wounds of a friend; and abundant the kisses of an enemy.
Cross References
Proverbs 28:23
He reproving a man, afterwards shall find favor more than he smoothing the tongue.
Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they went not upon the strait road according to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, If thou, being a Jew, livest according to the nations, and not according to the Jews, why forcest thou the nations to live as the Jews?
Leviticus 19:17
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: rebuking, thou shalt rebuke thy neighbor, and thou shalt not take sin upon him.
Matthew 18:15
And if thy brother sin against thee, retire, and refute him between thee and him alone; if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
1 Timothy 5:20
Them having sinned rebuke before all, that the rest also have fear.