Leviticus 19:17
17 a“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but byou shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you cincur sin because of him.Psalms 141:5
5 dLet a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness;let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head;
let my head not refuse it.
Yet emy prayer is continually against their evil deeds.
Proverbs 9:8
8 fDo not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;greprove a wise man, and he will love you.
Proverbs 17:10
10A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understandingthan a hundred blows into a fool.
Proverbs 27:5
5 hBetter is open rebukethan hidden love.
Galatians 2:11-14
Paul Opposes Peter
11But iwhen Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him jto his face, because he stood condemned. 12For before certain men came from James, khe was eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated himself, fearing lthe circumcision party. ▼▼Or fearing those of the circumcision
13And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14But when I saw that their nconduct was not in step with othe truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas pbefore them all, “If you, though a Jew, qlive like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the Gentiles to live like Jews?” James 5:19
19My brothers, rif anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone sbrings him back,
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