'Reprove' in the Bible
How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what doth it reprove?
Do ye think to reprove words, Seeing that the speeches of one that is desperate are as wind?
He will surely reprove you If ye do secretly show partiality.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: But I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Let the righteous smite me, it shall be a kindness; And let him reprove me, it shall be as oil upon the head; Let not my head refuse it: For even in their wickedness shall my prayer continue.
Reprove not a scoffer, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
Smite a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; And reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Add thou not unto his words, Lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
Yet let no man strive, neither let any man reprove; for thy people are as they that strive with the priest.