Proverbs 28:23

Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Proverbs 27:5-6

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Matthew 18:15

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

2 Samuel 12:7

Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

1 Kings 1:23

And they told the king, "Here is Nathan the prophet." And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1:32-40

King David said, "Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada." So they came before the king.

Psalm 141:5

Let a righteous man strike me--it is a kindness; let him rebuke me--it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

2 Peter 3:15-16

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

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