Proverbs 27:5

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Better is open reproving, than a love hid. [Better is open amending, than hid love.]

Cross References

Proverbs 28:23

He that reproveth a man, shall find grace afterward with him; more than he that deceiveth by flatterings of tongue.

Leviticus 19:17

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but reprove thou him openly, lest thou have sin on him.

Matthew 18:15

But if thy brother sinneth against thee, go thou, and reprove him, betwixt thee and him alone; if he heareth thee, thou hast won thy brother.

Galatians 2:14

But when I saw, that they walked not rightly to the truth of the gospel, I said to Peter [or to Cephas] before all men, If thou, that art a Jew, livest heathen-like, and not Jew-like, how constrainest thou heathen men to become Jews?

1 Timothy 5:20

But reprove thou men that sin before all men, that also others have dread.