If you warn the righteous person not to sin and the righteous person does not sin, he will surely live, because he took warning. You will have delivered your soul.”
They are more desirable than gold, yes, more than much pure gold! They are sweeter than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred lashes on a fool.
Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still. Teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning.
If you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it and he does not turn from his way, then he will die in his iniquity—but you have saved your soul.
Therefore be alert, remembering that night and day for three years I did not stop warning you with tears.
Therefore let the one who thinks that he stands watch out that he doesn’t fall.
I do not write these things to make you ashamed, but to warn you as my dearly loved children.
We proclaim Him, warning and teaching everyone in all wisdom, so that we may present every person complete in Messiah.
We urge you, brothers and sisters, correct the unruly, comfort the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.
Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Persevere in these things, for in doing so you will save yourself and those who hear you.
So communicate these things, and encourage and correct with complete authority. Let no one look down on you.
let him know that the one who turns a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins.
Those whom I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore, be zealous and repent.