29 Bible Verses about Reproving People

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Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Titus 1:13

This witness is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

Proverbs 24:25

But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.

Proverbs 9:8-9

Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 1:23

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Jeremiah 30:11

For I am with you, says the LORD, to save you: though I make a full end of all nations where I have scattered you, yet will I not make a full end of you: but I will correct you in just measure, and will not leave you altogether unpunished.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuses instruction: but he that regards reproof shall be honored.

Proverbs 15:32

He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.

Proverbs 19:25

Smite a scoffer, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Proverbs 17:10

A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

Proverbs 28:23

He that rebukes a man shall find more favor afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

Proverbs 9:7-8

He that reproves a scoffer gets for himself shame: and he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself injury. Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate you: rebuke a wise man, and he will love you.

Job 6:26

Do you intend to reprove words, and the speeches of one that is desperate, which are as wind?

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