Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Love » Secret love
Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
Rebuke » Open rebuke
Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
Reproof » The value of
A ring of gold and an ornament of fine gold [is] a rebuke of the wise to the ear of a listener.
And have you completely forgotten the exhortation which instructs you as sons? "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or give up [when you] are corrected by him.
Let a righteous one strike me in kindness, and let him chasten me. [It is] oil for [my] head; let not my head refuse. For still my prayer [is] against their evil deeds.
As for a rod and reproof, they will give wisdom, but a neglected child is disgraced [by] his mother.
A fool will despise the instruction of his father, but he who guards reproof is prudent.
Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.
A rebuke strikes him who understands deeper than one hundred blows to a fool.
Better to listen to [the] rebuke of [the] wise than for a man to listen to [the] song of fools.
Reproof » Declared to be » Better than secret love
Better a rebuke that is open than a love that is hidden.