Open rebuke is better than secret love.


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Proverbs 17 9 He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Proverbs 28 23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Hosea 14 4 I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.
Proverbs 27 6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
1 John 3 18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
Proverbs 13 1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
Proverbs 15 1 A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 9 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
Proverbs 14 10 The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
1 Timothy 5 1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;
Proverbs 10 12 Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Micah 7 5 Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Psalms 119 39 Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
Proverbs 15 12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Proverbs 15 17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Psalms 69 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.
Ecclesiastes 7 5 It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
Proverbs 21 14 A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath.
Psalms 38 11 My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
2 Timothy 3 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
Psalms 6 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Song of Solomon 8 6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
2 Corinthians 2 4 For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
1 John 3 11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
Psalms 38 1 O lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
Job 19 19 All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
Romans 12 9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Proverbs 9 7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Revelation 3 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
Proverbs 4 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Proverbs 6 34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Proverbs 25 19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
Proverbs 5 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Proverbs 20 19 He that goeth about as a talebearer revealeth secrets: therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Proverbs 24 25 But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.
Matthew 5 46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
Job 13 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Micah 7 6 For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.
Leviticus 19 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Proverbs 17 20 He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Revelation 2 4 Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.
Proverbs 15 20 A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
Proverbs 6 33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Matthew 10 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
1 Corinthians 15 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
1 Thessalonians 4 9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
Song of Solomon 8 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Jeremiah 23 40 And I will bring an everlasting reproach upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be forgotten.
Luke 8 17 For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.
2 Samuel 1 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.