Verse 5

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:23 : 23 He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
• Matt 18:15 : 15 And if thy brother sin against thee, go, show him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.