Proverbs 27:5 - The Scriptures 2009

⁵ Open reproof is better 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.

Proverbs 27:5 Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

He who reproves a man finds more favour afterward Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Leviticus 19:17

‘Do not hate your brother in your heart. Reprove your neighbour, for certain, and bear no sin because of him.

Matthew 18:15

“And if your brother sins against you, go and convict him, between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they are not walking straight according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Kĕpha before them all, “If you, being a Yehuḏi, live as the nations and not as the Yehuḏim, why do you compel nations to live as Yehuḏim?

1 Timothy 5:20

Reprove those who are sinning, in the presence of all, so that the rest also might fear.