Proverbs 27:5
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
KJV
Melior est manifesta correptio quam amor absconditus.
Vulgate
κρείσσους ἔλεγχοι ἀποκεκαλυμμένοι κρυπτομένης φιλίας.
LXX
Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.
ASV
ט֭וֹבָה תּוֹכַ֣חַת מְגֻלָּ֑ה מֵֽ/אַהֲבָ֥ה מְסֻתָּֽרֶת
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אַהֲבָ֖ה
'hbh
verb · 40×
ט֣וֹב
tvb
verb · 562×
י
y
noun · 28×
נִי
ny
verb · 82×
תְגַלֵּ֑ה
tglh
verb · 185×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Tim 5:20 — Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
- 2Cor 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.
- Gal 2:14 — But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews
- Gen 20:16 — And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reprov
- Lev 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.
- Lev 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.
- Luke 17:3 — Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
- Matt 18:15 — Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
- Prov 25:12 — As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
- Prov 28:23 — He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
- Prov 28:23 — He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
- Ps 141:5 — Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
- Titus 1:13 — This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
- Zech 13:6 — And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.