Proverbs 27:5

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Better is reproof being uncovered than love being secret.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

He who reproves a man afterwards finds grace, more than he who flatters with the tongue.

Leviticus 19:17

You shall not hate your brother in your heart; reproving you shall reprove your neighbor, and not allow sin on him.

Matthew 18:15

But if your brother sin against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw that they did not walk uprightly with the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter before all, If you being a Jew, live heathen-like and not Jewishly, why do you compel the nations to Judaize?

1 Timothy 5:20

The ones sinning before all, rebuke, that the rest also may have fear.