Verse 5

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 28:23 : 23 One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they didn't walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, "If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.
• Matt 18:15 : 15 "If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.