Proverbs 28:23 - Revised Standard Version

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.

American Standard Version (1901)

He that rebuketh a man shall afterward find more favor Than he that flattereth with the tongue.

Common English Bible

Those who correct someone will, in the end, find more favor than those with flattering tongues.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Whoever corrects a man, afterward he shall find favor with him, more so than he who deceives him with a flattering tongue.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

Proverbs 28:23 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:7

Nathan said to David, “You are the man. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul;

1 Kings 1:23

And they told the king, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he bowed before the king, with his face to the ground.

Job 32:21

I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man.

Job 32:22

For I do not know how to flatter, else would my Maker soon put an end to me.

Psalm 141:5

Let a good man strike or rebuke me in kindness, but let the oil of the wicked never anoint my head; for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.

Proverbs 24:25

but those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will be upon them.

Proverbs 29:5

A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Matthew 18:15

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Galatians 2:11

But when Cephas came to Antioch I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.