Bible Verses About Reproof

Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him.

Also, if seven times in one day he sins against you, and seven times he comes to you and says, ‘I repent,’ you are to forgive him.”

Yeshua replied, “I tell you, Kefa, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know me.”

But the other one spoke up and rebuked the first, saying, “Have you no fear of God? You’re getting the same punishment as he is.

He said to them, “Foolish people! So unwilling to put your trust in everything the prophets spoke!

Startled and terrified, they thought they were seeing a ghost.

But he said to them, “Why are you so upset? Why are these doubts welling up inside you?

and to the pigeon-sellers he said, “Get these things out of here! How dare you turn my Father’s house into a market?”

The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me, because I keep telling it how wicked its ways are.

Why don’t you understand what I’m saying? Because you can’t bear to listen to my message.

Yeshua answered him, “You don’t understand yet what I am doing, but in time you will understand.”

“No!” said Kefa, “You will never wash my feet!” Yeshua answered him, “If I don’t wash you, you have no share with me.”

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the comforting Counselor will not come to you. However, if I do go, I will send him to you.

“When he comes, he will show that the world is wrong about sin, about righteousness and about judgment —

Then Kefa said, “Why has the Adversary so filled your heart that you lie to the Ruach HaKodesh and keep back some of the money you received for the land?

Before you sold it, the property was yours; and after you sold it, the money was yours to use as you pleased. So what made you decide to do such a thing? You have lied not to human beings but to God!”

But Kefa came back at her, “Then why did you people plot to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The men who buried your husband are at the door. They will carry you out too!”

“Stiffnecked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You continually oppose the Ruach HaKodesh! You do the same things your fathers did!

But Kefa said to him, “Your silver go to ruin — and you with it, for thinking the free gift of God can be bought!

Nevertheless, brothers, I call on you in the name of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah to agree, all of you, in what you say, and not to let yourselves remain split into factions but be restored to having a common mind and a common purpose.

For some of Chloe’s people have made it known to me, my brothers, that there are quarrels among you.

I say this because one of you says, “I follow Sha’ul”; another says, “I follow Apollos”; another, “I follow Kefa”; while still another says, “I follow the Messiah!”

Has the Messiah been split in pieces? Was it Sha’ul who was put to death on a stake for you? Were you immersed into the name of Sha’ul?

It is actually being reported that there is sexual sin among you, and it is sexual sin of a kind that is condemned even by pagans — a man is living with his stepmother!

And you stay proud? Shouldn’t you rather have felt some sadness that would have led you to remove from your company the man who has done this thing?