THEOSISProverbs 28:23Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.
מ֘וֹכִ֤יחַ אָדָ֣ם אַ֭חֲרַי חֵ֣ן יִמְצָ֑א מִֽמַּחֲלִ֥יק לָשֽׁוֹן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 27:5Open rebuke is better than hidden love.
- Prov 27:6Better are the wounds of a friend, than the deceitful kisses of an enemy.
- Ps 141 (140):5
- Matt 18:15But 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.
- 2 Pet 3:15And account the longsuffering of our Lord, salvation: as also our most dear brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, hath written to you:
- 2 Pet 3:16As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are certain things hard to be understood, which the unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, to their own destruction.
- Prov 29:5A man that speaketh to his friend with flattering and dissembling words, spreadeth a net for his feet.
- Gal 2:11But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.