Proverbs 27:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Open rebuke is better Than secret love.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

Common English Bible

A public correction is better than hidden love.

Catholic Public Domain Version

An open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Proverbs 27:5 Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

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

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt surely rebuke thy neighbour, and not bear sin because of him.

Matthew 18:15

And if thy brother sin against thee, go, shew him his fault between thee and him alone: if he hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

1 Timothy 5:20

Them that sin reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.