Proverbs 27:5

All About Life

⁴ Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy? ⁵ Better is open reproof than hidden love. ⁶ Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Open Rebuke is Better

Better Is Open Rebuke

Proverbs 28:23

Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, 'If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

Leviticus 19:17

'Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

Matthew 18:15

'And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

1 Timothy 5:20

Those sinning, reprove before all, that the others also may have fear;