Proverbs 27:5 - New Revised Standard Version

⁵ Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Open rebuke is better Than secret love.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Open rebuke is better than love that is hidden. [Prov. 28:23; Gal. 2:14.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

Common English Bible

⁵ A public correction is better than hidden love.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ An open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Proverbs 27:5 Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbor, or you will incur guilt yourself.

Matthew 18:15

“If another member of the church sins against you, go and point out the fault when the two of you are alone. If the member listens to you, you have regained that one.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they were not acting consistently with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”

1 Timothy 5:20

As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest also may stand in fear.