5Open rebuke is better than secret love.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
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.
Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-6)Note, 1. It is good for us to be reproved, and told of our faults, by our friends. If true love in the heart has but zeal and courage enough to show itself in dealing plainly with our friends, and reproving them for what they say and do amiss, this is really better , not only than secret hatred (as Lev. 19:17), but than secret love , that love to our neighbours which does not show itself in this g…
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