Bible Verses About Reproof: General references

`Thou dost not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou dost certainly reprove thy fellow, and not suffer sin on him.

The righteous doth beat me in kindness. And doth reprove me, Oil of the head my head disalloweth not, For still my prayer is about their vexations.

The instructor of a scorner Is receiving for it--shame, And a reprover of the wicked--his blemish.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee, Give reproof to the wise, and he loveth thee.

A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.

Whoso is refusing instruction--poverty and shame, And whoso is observing reproof is honoured.

A fool despiseth the instruction of his father, And whoso is regarding reproof is prudent.

Chastisement is grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

A scorner loveth not his reprover, Unto the wise he goeth not.

An ear that is hearing the reproof of life Doth lodge among the wise.

Whoso is refusing instruction is despising his soul, And whoso is hearing reproof Is getting understanding.

Rebuke cometh down on the intelligent More than a hundred stripes on a fool.

A scorner smite, and the simple acts prudently, And give reproof to the intelligent, He understandeth knowledge.

When the scorner is punished, the simple becometh wise, And in giving understanding to the wise He receiveth knowledge.

A ring of gold, and an ornament of pure gold, Is the wise reprover to an attentive ear.

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Better is open reproof than hidden love.

Faithful are the wounds of a lover, And abundant the kisses of an enemy.

Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

Better to hear a rebuke of a wise man, Than for a man to hear a song of fools,

They have hated a reprover in the gate, And a plain speaker they abominate.

`And if thy brother may sin against thee, go and show him his fault between thee and him alone, if he may hear thee, thou didst gain thy brother;

and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

`And if he may not hear them, say it to the assembly, and if also the assembly he may not hear, let him be to thee as the heathen man and the tax-gatherer.