Rebuking

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• Proverbs 27:5

  Open rebuke is better than secret love.

• Matthew 18:15–17

  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

• 1 Timothy 5:20

  Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

• Galatians 6:1

  Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

• Titus 2:15

  These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee.

• 2 Timothy 4:2

  Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

• 2 Timothy 3:16–17

  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

• James 5:20

  Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.

• Luke 17:3–4

  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

• Proverbs 27:6

  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

• Proverbs 1:23

  Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

• Revelation 3:19

  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

• 1 Timothy 5:1

  Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

• Hebrews 4:12

  For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

• Proverbs 29:15

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

• 2 Timothy 3:16

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

• Proverbs 9:8–9

  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

• Jude 1:9

  Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

• Mark 16:14

  Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

• Zechariah 3:2

  And the LORD said unto Satan, The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan; even the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

• Leviticus 19:17

  Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

• 1 Corinthians 5:12

  For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

• Matthew 17:18

  And Jesus rebuked the devil; and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour.

• 1 Corinthians 5:11–13

  But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

• James 4:7

  Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

• Proverbs 12:1

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

• Luke 17:3

  Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

• Titus 1:13

  This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;

• Proverbs 9:8

  Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

• Matthew 18:15

  Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.

• Ephesians 6:12

  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

• Psalms 104:7

  At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.

• Luke 4:41

  And devils also came out of many, crying out, and saying, Thou art Christ the Son of God. And he rebuking them suffered them not to speak: for they knew that he was Christ.

• Ephesians 6:10–18

  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. …

• 2 Corinthians 4:4

  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

• 1 Peter 5:8

  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

• Matthew 16:23

  But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

• Proverbs 28:23

  He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

• Jude 1:3

  Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

• Micah 4:3

  And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.