Proverbs 27:5

King James 2000

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

He that rebukes a man shall find more favor afterwards than he that flatters with the tongue.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate your brother in your heart: you shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

Matthew 18:15

Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone: if he shall hear you, you have gained your brother.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If you, being a Jew, live after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compel you the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

1 Timothy 5:20

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.