Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Whoever rebukes a person will in the end gain favor rather than one who has a flattering tongue.
“ ‘Do not hate a fellow Israelite in your heart. Rebuke your neighbor frankly so you will not share in their guilt.
“If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.
When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs?
But those elders who are sinning you are to reprove before everyone, so that the others may take warning.
