Proverbs 27:5
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Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

Proverbs 28:23
He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

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Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Proverbs 28:23 He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

Leviticus 19:17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart: But reprove him openly, lest thou incur sin through him.

Matthew 18:15 But if thy brother shall offend against thee, go, and rebuke him between thee and him alone. If he shall hear thee, thou shalt gain thy brother.

Galatians 2:14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly unto the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all: If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of the Gentiles and not as the Jews do, how dost thou compel the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

1 Timothy 5:20 Them that sin reprove before all that the rest also may have fear.

Context
Do not Boast about Tomorrow
4Anger hath no mercy: nor fury, when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked? 5Open rebuke is better than hidden love.6Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.…
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Better
ט֭וֹבָה‪‬ (ṭō·w·ḇāh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

an open
מְגֻלָּ֑ה (mə·ḡul·lāh)
Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

rebuke
תּוֹכַ֣חַת (tō·w·ḵa·ḥaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8433: Chastisement, correction, refutation, proof

than love
מֵֽאַהֲבָ֥ה (mê·’a·hă·ḇāh)
Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 160: Love (noun)

that is concealed.
מְסֻתָּֽרֶת׃ (mə·sut·tā·reṯ)
Verb - Pual - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5641: To hide, conceal


Additional Translations
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Better is open rebuke Than love that is hidden.

Open reproofs are better than secret love.

Open rebuke is better than hidden love.

Better is open rebuke than love that is hidden.

Open rebuke is better than secret love.

Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Better is open reproof than hidden love.
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