Bible Verses About Reproof

To the Overseer with stringed instruments, on the octave. --A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, in Thine anger reprove me not, Nor in Thy fury chastise me.

The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple,

The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous--together.

They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

Also--Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,

Before I am afflicted, I--I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

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.

They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

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.