Proverbs 27:5 - 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

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

Leviticus 19:17

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.

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 2:14

But when I saw that they were not straightforward about 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 may stand in fear.