Proverbs 28:23

Proverbs 28:23
One who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.

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Proverbs 29:5
A man who flatters his neighbor spreads a net for his feet.

Psalms 5:9
For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Proverbs 2:16
to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 20:19
He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets; therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

Proverbs 26:28
A lying tongue hates those it hurts; and a flattering mouth works ruin.

Job 32:21
Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.

Psalms 12:2
Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

Psalms 12:3
May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

1 Thessalonians 2:5
For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

Proverbs 7:5
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 24:24
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—

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Psalms 141:5
Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don’t let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.

Proverbs 27:5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Proverbs 27:6
The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Matthew 18:15
“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother.

Leviticus 19:17
“ ‘You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.

2 Samuel 12:7
Nathan said to David, “You are the man! This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.

1 Kings 1:23
They told the king, saying, “Behold, Nathan the prophet!” When he had come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

1 Kings 1:32
King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” They came before the king.

Proverbs 25:12
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

Galatians 2:11
But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

Galatians 2:14
But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

2 Peter 3:15
Regard the patience of our Lord as salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also, according to the wisdom given to him, wrote to you,

2 Peter 3:16
as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

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Proverbs 9:7
One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.

Proverbs 9:8
Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.

Proverbs 9:9
Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

Proverbs 14:7
Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Proverbs 15:12
A scoffer doesn’t love to be reproved; he will not go to the wise.

Proverbs 21:24
The proud and arrogant man—“Scoffer” is his name— he works in the arrogance of pride.

Proverbs 22:10
Drive out the mocker, and strife will go out; yes, quarrels and insults will stop.

Proverbs 23:9
Don’t speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.

Proverbs 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

Romans 12:17
Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.

Romans 12:18
If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Galatians 6:10
So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

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Jeremiah 7:24
But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

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