Bible Verses About Reproof: Ministers are empowered to give

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;