Proverbs 27:5
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
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- Proverbs 28:23 He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.
- 1 Timothy 5:20 But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin.
- Galatians 2:14 When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”