Proverbs 27:5

5  Better is eopen rebuke

than hidden love.

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Psalm 141:5
Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but whoever heeds reproof is honored.

Proverbs 28:23
Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue.

Ecclesiastes 7:5
It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]