Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.
“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him.
“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.
But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you, though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
As for those who persist in sin, rebuke them in the presence of all, so that the rest may stand in fear.
